iconoclasm

English

Etymology

From iconoclast.

Noun

iconoclasm (countable and uncountable, plural iconoclasms)

1. The belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually with religious or political motives.

Antonyms

• iconodulism

Related terms

• iconoclast
• iconoclastic

Translations

belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons

• Armenian: պատկերամարտություն (hy) (patkeramartutʿyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 破壞偶像主義, 破坏偶像主义 (pòhuàiǒuxiàngzhǔyì)

• Czech: ikonoklasmus (cs) m, obrazoborectví n
• Danish: billedstorm c (especially regarding the Dutch Reformation), ikonoklasme c
• Dutch: iconoclasme (nl), beeldenstorm (nl)
• Esperanto: ikonoklasmo
• Finnish: ikonoklasmi (fi)
• French: iconoclasme (fr) m
• German: Ikonoklasmus (de) m, Bildersturm (de) m, Bilderstürmerei f

• Hungarian: képrombolás
• Italian: iconoclastia (it)
• Japanese: 偶像破壊 (ぐうぞうはかい, guuzou-hakai)
• Polish: ikonoklazm (pl) m, obrazoburstwo n
• Portuguese: iconoclastia (pt) f
• Russian: иконоборчество (ru) (ikonoborčestvo)
• Spanish: iconoclasia f, iconoclastia f
• Swedish: bildstorm (sv) c, ikonoklasm c
• Ukrainian: іконобо́рство n (ikonobórstvo), іконокла́зм m (ikonoklázm)

by extension: attacking cherished beliefs

• Hungarian: polgárpukkasztás

See also

• aniconism

References

• iconoclasm in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.
• iconoclasm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.