fundamentalism
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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.”
- Colin Woodard (2011) chapter 24, in American nations:
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfundamentalism (countable and uncountable, plural fundamentalisms)
- (religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.
- Synonym: bibliolatry
- (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 […]
- (finance) The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of a financial instrument.
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See also
edit- (religion): orthodoxy
- (finance): technical analysis, value investing
References
edit- “fundamentalism”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- fundamentalism in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fundamentalism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French fondamentalisme. By surface analysis, fundamental + -ism.
Noun
editfundamentalism n (uncountable)
Declension
editsingular only | indefinite | definite |
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nominative-accusative | fundamentalism | fundamentalismul |
genitive-dative | fundamentalism | fundamentalismului |
vocative | fundamentalismule |
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editFurther reading
edit- fundamentalism in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Swedish
editNoun
editfundamentalism c
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editnominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | fundamentalism | fundamentalisms |
definite | fundamentalismen | fundamentalismens | |
plural | indefinite | fundamentalismer | fundamentalismers |
definite | fundamentalismerna | fundamentalismernas |
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