English Explanatory Dictionary

fundamentalism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.
  2. A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets.
  3. The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of a financial instrument.
  4. A Christian movement that started in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among British and American Protestants, which emphasizes literal interpretation of the Bible, and came up as a reaction to liberal theology and cultural modernism

Pronunciation

/ˌfʌndəˈmentəlɪzəm/ en-us-fundamentalism.ogg

Word forms

fundamentalism fundamentalisms

Etymology

From fundamental + -ism. First used in the 1910s by American Christians.

Synonyms

bibliolatry

Related words

fundamentalist orthodoxy technical analysis value investing

Derived words

antifundamentalism free-market fundamentalism Islamic fundamentalism market fundamentalism techno-fundamentalism

Translations

Albanian: fondamentalizëm Arabic: أُصُولِيَّة Armenian: ֆունդամենտալիզմ Azerbaijani: fundamentalizm Belarusian: фундаменталі́зм Belarusian: фундамэнталі́зм Bengali: মৌলবাদ Bulgarian: фундаментали́зъм Catalan: fonamentalisme Catalan: integrisme Chechen: фундаментализм Chinese Mandarin: 原教旨主義 /原教旨主义 Chinese Mandarin: 基要派 Czech: fundamentalismus Danish: fundamentalisme Dutch: fundamentalisme Estonian: fundamentalism Finnish: fundamentalismi French: fondamentalisme French: intégrisme Georgian: ფუნდამენტალიზმი German: Fundamentalismus Greek: φονταμενταλισμός Hebrew: פוּנְדָּמֶנְטָלִיזְם Hindi: कट्टरतावाद Hungarian: fundamentalizmus Icelandic: bókstafstrú Indonesian: fundamentalisme Italian: fondamentalismo Italian: integralismo Japanese: 原理主義 Japanese: 根本主義 Kazakh: фундаментализм Korean: 근본주의 Korean: 원리주의 Northern Kurdish: binyatîtî Kyrgyz: фундаментализм Latin: fundamentalismus Latvian: fundamentālisms Lithuanian: fundamentalizmas Macedonian: фундаментали́зам Malay: fundamentalisme Māori: angawhakapūtanga Norwegian Bokmål: fundamentalisme Pashto: بنسټپالنه Persian: بنیادگرایی Polish: fundamentalizm
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