fundamentalism

English

Etymology

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

• Colin Woodard (2011) chapter 24, in American nations:

  "Christian fundamentalism appeared in North America in reaction to the liberal theologies that were becoming dominant in the northern nations. It took its name from The Fundamentals, a twelve-volume attack on liberal theology, evolution, atheism, socialism, Mormons, Catholics, Christian Scientists, and Jehovah’s Witnesses written by Appalachian Baptist preacher A. C. Dixon.”

Pronunciation

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Noun

fundamentalism (countable and uncountable, plural fundamentalisms)

1. (religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.

   Synonym: bibliolatry

2. (by extension) A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets.
   • 2009, Thomas A. Regelski, J. Terry Gates, Music Education for Changing Times: Guiding Visions for Practice:

     Recent books by philosopher Roger Scruton (1999, 2000) and music educator Robert Walker (2007) may be interpreted as a last desperate gasp of this form of musical fundamentalism or neoconservativism—the kind that tells the masses what is "good for them" on the grounds that they lack adequate bases for judgments on their own […]

3. (finance) The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of a financial instrument.

Derived terms

• free-market fundamentalism
• Islamic fundamentalism
• market fundamentalism
• techno-fundamentalism

 

Related terms

• fundamentalist

Translations

religion

• Albanian: fondamentalizëm m
• Arabic: أُصُولِيَّة f (ʔuṣūliyya)
• Armenian: ֆունդամենտալիզմ (hy) (fundamentalizm)
• Azerbaijani: fundamentalizm
• Belarusian: фундаменталі́зм m (fundamjentalízm), фундамэнталі́зм m (fundamentalízm)
• Bengali: মৌলবাদ (bn) (mōulbad)
• Bulgarian: фундаментали́зъм m (fundamentalízǎm)
• Catalan: fonamentalisme (ca) m
• Chechen: фундаментализм (fundamentalizm)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 原教旨主義／原教旨主义 (zh) (yuánjiàozhǐzhǔyì), 基要派 (jīyàopài)

• Czech: fundamentalismus m
• Danish: fundamentalisme c
• Dutch: fundamentalisme (nl) n
• Estonian: fundamentalism (et)
• Finnish: fundamentalismi (fi)
• French: fondamentalisme (fr) m
• Georgian: ფუნდამენტალიზმი (pundamenṭalizmi)
• German: Fundamentalismus (de) m
• Greek: φονταμενταλισμός (el) (fontamentalismós)
• Hebrew: פוּנְדָּמֶנְטָלִיזְם (he) m (fundamentalízm)
• Hindi: कट्टरतावाद m (kaṭṭartāvād)
• Hungarian: fundamentalizmus (hu)
• Icelandic: bókstafstrú f
• Indonesian: fundamentalisme (id)
• Italian: fondamentalismo (it), integralismo (it) m
• Japanese: 原理主義 (ja) (げんりしゅぎ, genrishugi), 根本主義 (ja) (こんぽんしゅぎ, konponshugi)
• Kazakh: фундаментализм (fundamentalizm)
• Korean: 근본주의(根本主義) (geunbonjuui), 원리주의(原理主義) (wollijuui)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: binyatîtî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: фундаментализм (fundamentalizm)
• Latin: fundamentalismus m
• Latvian: fundamentālisms m
• Lithuanian: fundamentalizmas m
• Macedonian: фундаментали́зам m (fundamentalízam)
• Malay: fundamentalisme
• Maori: angawhakapūtanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fundamentalisme m

• Pashto: بنسټپالنه (ps) m
• Persian: بنیادگرایی (bonyâd-garâyi)
• Polish: fundamentalizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: fundamentalismo (pt) m
• Romanian: fundamentalism
• Russian: фундаментали́зм (ru) m (fundamentalízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фундаменталѝзам m

  Roman: fundamentalìzam (sh) m

• Slovak: fundamentalizmus m
• Slovene: fundamentalizem (sl) m
• Spanish: fundamentalismo (es)
• Swedish: fundamentalism (sv) c
• Tajik: бунёдгароӣ (bunyodgaroi‍)
• Thai: มูลฐานนิยม (muun-lá-tǎan-ní-yom)
• Tigrinya: ኣኽራርነት (ʾaxrarnät)
• Turkish: köktendincilik, köktencilik (tr), fundamentalizm (tr)
• Turkmen: fundamentalizm
• Ukrainian: фундаменталі́зм m (fundamentalízm)
• Urdu: بنیاد پرستی f (boneyâd parasti)
• Uzbek: fundamentalizm (uz)
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa cơ yếu
• Yiddish: פֿונדאַמענטאַליזם m (fundamentalizm)

finance

• Finnish: fundamentalismi (fi)
• Portuguese: fundamentalismo (pt) m

See also

• (religion): orthodoxy
• (finance): technical analysis, value investing

References

• “fundamentalism”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• fundamentalism in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• “fundamentalism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fondamentalisme. By surface analysis, fundamental +‎ -ism.

Noun

fundamentalism n (uncountable)

1. (religion, philosophy) fundamentalism

Declension

declension of fundamentalism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) fundamentalism	fundamentalismul
genitive/dative	(unui) fundamentalism	fundamentalismului
vocative	fundamentalismule

Swedish

Noun

fundamentalism c

1. fundamentalism

Declension

Declension of fundamentalism
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	fundamentalism	fundamentalismen	fundamentalismer	fundamentalismerna
Genitive	fundamentalisms	fundamentalismens	fundamentalismers	fundamentalismernas

Related terms

• fundamentalist

References

• fundamentalism in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fundamentalism in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)