SHAKTISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Shaktism mean? 

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

1. a Hindu sect worshiping Shakti

2. worship of Shakti as the wife of Shiva

  Familiarity information: SHAKTISM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHAKTISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Hindu sect worshiping Shakti

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Saktism; Shaktism

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

religious order; religious sect; sect (a subdivision of a larger religious group)

Meronyms (members of "Shaktism"):

Shaktist (worshipper of Shakti)

Holonyms ("Shaktism" is a member of...):

Hindooism; Hinduism (the religion of most people in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal)

Derivation:

Shaktist (worshipper of Shakti)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Worship of Shakti as the wife of Shiva

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

Saktism; Shaktism

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

Hindooism; Hinduism (a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils)

Derivation:

Shaktist (worshipper of Shakti)