Catholicism

See also: catholicism

English

Etymology

Compare French catholicisme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈθɒlɪsɪzm/

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Noun

Catholicism (usually uncountable, plural Catholicisms)

1. The faiths, practices and doctrines of the Catholic Church, usually the Roman Catholic Church.
   • 2011, Connie Green, Religious Diversity, Children's Literature, page 156:

     Catholicism is the second largest religious body after Sunni Muslims

Synonyms

• Roman Catholicism (synonymous in most contexts)

Hypernyms

• Christianity, trinitarianism

Coordinate terms

• Mormonism, Protestantism, Quakerism

Derived terms

• Independent Catholicism

Translations

faiths, practices and doctrines of a Catholic Church

• Afrikaans: Katolisisme
• Arabic: كَاثُولِيكِيَّة (kāṯūlīkiyya) (modern transliteration), جَاثَلِيقِيَّة (jāṯalīqiyya), كَتْلَكِيَّة (katlakiyya), كَاتُوْلِيْكِيَّة (kātuwliykiyya), كُوْتَالِيَّة (kuwtāliyya) (Greek Catholicism)
• Armenian: կաթոլիկություն (hy) (katʻolikutʻyun)
• Asturian: catolicismu (ast) m
• Basque: katolizismo
• Belarusian: каталіцтва n (katalictva)
• Breton: katoligiezh
• Bulgarian: католицизъм n (katolicizǎm)
• Catalan: catolicisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天主教 (zh) (Tiānzhǔjiào)

• Czech: katolicismus m, katolictví n
• Danish: katolicisme (da) c
• Dutch: katholicisme (nl) n, Katholizism
• Esperanto: katolikismo
• Estonian: katoliiklus
• Finnish: katolisuus (fi), katolilaisuus (fi)
• French: catholicisme (fr) m
• Galician: catolicismo (gl) m
• Georgian: კათოლიციზმის (ḳatolicizmis)
• German: Katholizismus (de) m
• Greek: καθολικισμός (el) m (katholikismós)
• Haitian Creole: Katolik
• Hebrew: קתוליות
• Hindi: रोमन कैथोलिक ईसाई (roman kaitholik īsāī)
• Hungarian: katolicizmus (hu)
• Icelandic: kaþólska kirkjan
• Ido: katolikismo (io)
• Indonesian: Katolikisme, katolisisme
• Irish: Caitliceachas m
• Italian: cattolicesimo (it)
• Japanese: カトリシズム (ja) (katorishizumu)
• Kalmyk: католик шаҗн (katolik şajn)
• Korean: 가톨릭주의 (gatollikjuui)
• Latvian: katoļticība f, katolicisms m
• Lithuanian: katalikybė (lt) f
• Macedonian: католицизмот n (katolicizmot)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: katolisisme (no) m

  Nynorsk: katolisisme m

• Persian: کاتولیسیسم (kâtolisism)
• Polish: katolicyzm (pl) m
• Portuguese: catolicismo (pt)
• Romanian: catolicism (ro) n
• Russian: католици́зм (ru) m (katolicízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: католицѝзам m, католича́нство n

  Roman: katolicìzam (sh) m, katoličánstvo (sh) n

• Slovak: katolicizmus m
• Slovene: katolištvo n
• Spanish: catolicismo (es) m
• Swahili: Ukatoliki
• Swedish: katolicism (sv)
• Tagalog: katolisismo
• Turkish: Katoliklik (tr), Katolisizm
• Ukrainian: като́лицтво n (katólyctvo), католици́зм m (katolycýzm)
• Vietnamese: Công giáo (vi)
• Welsh: Catholigiaeth (cy)