fanaticism
IPA: fʌnˈætʌsɪzʌm
noun
- The characteristic or practice of being a fanatic.
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Examples of "fanaticism" in Sentences
- Some might scoff but pet fanaticism is a growth industry.
- The fanaticism is unreal, the total disdain for the rest of the country equally so.
- "I'm afraid that fanaticism is like a black plague, it's contagious," Wiesel continued.
- Religions fanaticism is the malady and you are trying to spread it further. bitblt says:
- Religious fanaticism is the engine of Skrull imperialism! — but it delivered on little of its early promise.
- And for the record not all extremists are Christians and Muslims but religious fanaticism is alive and well and the non-extremists of those two religions seem to be afraid to stand up to them.
- But the great danger of fanaticism is that it cannot see any other side, addiction allows for no moderation, and something that is meant to bring comfort and joy ends up as the most destructive force designed by mankind.
- The trailer portrays in part how American Evangelical Christian fanaticism is mixing religion with militarism and right-wing politics, a brainwashing of American kids that anyone who isn't Christian (and, more likely, anyone who doesn't believe in their type of Christianity) must be defeated.
- Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us-then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.
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