FUNDAMENTALISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fundamentalism mean? 

• FUNDAMENTALISM (noun)
  The noun FUNDAMENTALISM has 2 senses:

1. a form of Protestantism that takes the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth

2. the strict adherence to the basic principles or doctrines of a religion, ideology, etc.

  Familiarity information: FUNDAMENTALISM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUNDAMENTALISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A form of Protestantism that takes the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("fundamentalism" is a kind of...):

Protestantism (the theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation)

Derivation:

fundamentalist (a supporter of fundamentalism)

fundamentalistic (of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The strict adherence to the basic principles or doctrines of a religion, ideology, etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("fundamentalism" is a kind of...):

ideology; political orientation; political theory (an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation)

Derivation:

fundamentalist (an adherent of fundamentalist principles)

fundamentalistic (of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism)