fanaticism

English

Alternative forms

• phanaticism (archaic)

Etymology

From fanatic +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fəˈnæt.ɪ.sɪ.zəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /fəˈnæɾ.ɪ.sɪ.zm̩/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

fanaticism (countable and uncountable, plural fanaticisms)

1. The characteristic or practice of being a fanatic.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 35:

     The demon of fanaticism was the shape which it took with us; and verily, what with religious republicans, harmonists, quakers, fifth-monarchy men, presbyterians, and the reign of the saints upon earth, it needs the strong hand of a Cromwell to reduce the spiritual chaos to any sort of order.

   • 1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 88:

     Witch-hunting became a mania, with all the abuses and excesses which invariably develop with fanaticism.

Translations

characteristic or practice of being a fanatic

• Albanian: fanatizëm (sq) m
• Arabic: تَعَصُّب m (taʕaṣṣub)
• Armenian: ֆանատիզմ (hy) (fanatizm)
• Azerbaijani: təəssübkeşlik
• Belarusian: фанаты́зм m (fanatýzm), фанаты́чнасць f (fanatýčnascʹ)
• Bulgarian: фанати́зъм (bg) m (fanatízǎm), фанати́чност f (fanatíčnost)
• Catalan: fanatisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狂熱 / 狂热 (zh) (kuángrè), 狂信 (zh) (kuángxìn)

• Czech: fanatismus (cs) m
• Danish: fanatisme c
• Dutch: fanatisme (nl) n
• Estonian: fanatism
• Finnish: fanaattisuus (fi), fanatismi (fi), kiihkoilu (fi), kiihko (fi)
• French: fanatisme (fr) m
• Galician: fanatismo (gl) m
• Georgian: ფანატიზმი (panaṭizmi)
• German: Fanatismus (de) m, Eiferertum n
• Greek: φανατισμός (el) m (fanatismós)
• Hungarian: fanatizmus (hu)
• Italian: fanatismo (it) m
• Japanese: 狂信 (ja) (きょうしん, kyōshin), ファナティシズム (fanatishizumu)
• Korean: 열광(熱狂) (ko) (yeolgwang), 광신(狂信) (ko) (gwangsin), 광신주의(狂信主義) (gwangsinjuui)
• Latvian: fanātisms m
• Lithuanian: fanatizmas m
• Macedonian: фанати́зам m (fanatízam)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fanatisme m

• Persian: تعصب (fa) (ta'assob)
• Polish: fanatyzm (pl) m
• Portuguese: fanatismo (pt) m
• Romanian: fanatism (ro) n
• Russian: фанати́зм (ru) m (fanatízm), фанати́чность (ru) f (fanatíčnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фана̀тично̄ст f

  Latin: fanàtičnōst (sh) f

• Slovak: fanatizmus m
• Slovene: fanatizem m
• Spanish: fanatismo (es) m
• Swedish: fanatism (sv) c
• Tajik: таъассуб (ta'assub), таассуб (taassub)
• Turkish: bağnazlık (tr), fanatiklik (tr), fanatizm (tr)
• Ukrainian: фанати́зм m (fanatýzm), фанати́чність f (fanatýčnistʹ)
• Uzbek: mutaassiblik (uz), fanatizm (uz), fanatiklik (uz)