English
Etymology
From fanatic + -ism.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fəˈnæt.ɪ.sɪ.zəm/
- (US) IPA(key): /fəˈnæɾ.ɪ.sɪ.zm̩/
Noun
fanaticism (countable and uncountable, plural fanaticisms)
- The characteristic or practice of being a fanatic.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 35:The demon of fanaticism was the shape which it took with us; and verily, what with religious republicans, harmonists, quakers, fifth-monarchy men, presbyterians, and the reign of the saints upon earth, it needs the strong hand of a Cromwell to reduce the spiritual chaos to any sort of order.
1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 88:Witch-hunting became a mania, with all the abuses and excesses which invariably develop with fanaticism.
Translations
characteristic or practice of being a fanatic
- Albanian: fanatizëm (sq) m
- Arabic: تَعَصُّب m (taʕaṣṣub)
- Armenian: ֆանատիզմ (hy) (fanatizm)
- Azerbaijani: təəssübkeşlik
- Belarusian: фанаты́зм m (fanatýzm), фанаты́чнасць f (fanatýčnascʹ)
- Bulgarian: фанати́зъм (bg) m (fanatízǎm), фанати́чност f (fanatíčnost)
- Catalan: fanatisme (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 狂熱 / 狂热 (zh) (kuángrè), 狂信 (zh) (kuángxìn)
- Czech: fanatismus (cs) m
- Danish: fanatisme c
- Dutch: fanatisme (nl) n
- Estonian: fanatism
- Finnish: fanaattisuus (fi), fanatismi (fi), kiihkoilu (fi), kiihko (fi)
- French: fanatisme (fr) m
- Galician: fanatismo (gl) m
- Georgian: ფანატიზმი (panaṭizmi)
- German: Fanatismus (de) m, Eiferertum n
- Greek: φανατισμός (el) m (fanatismós)
- Hungarian: fanatizmus (hu)
- Italian: fanatismo (it) m
- Japanese: 狂信 (ja) (きょうしん, kyōshin), ファナティシズム (fanatishizumu)
- Korean: 열광(熱狂) (ko) (yeolgwang), 광신(狂信) (ko) (gwangsin), 광신주의(狂信主義) (gwangsinjuui)
- Latvian: fanātisms m
- Lithuanian: fanatizmas m
- Macedonian: фанати́зам m (fanatízam)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fanatisme m
- Persian: تعصب (fa) (ta'assob)
- Polish: fanatyzm (pl) m
- Portuguese: fanatismo (pt) m
- Romanian: fanatism (ro) n
- Russian: фанати́зм (ru) m (fanatízm), фанати́чность (ru) f (fanatíčnostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: фана̀тично̄ст f
- Latin: fanàtičnōst (sh) f
- Slovak: fanatizmus m
- Slovene: fanatizem m
- Spanish: fanatismo (es) m
- Swedish: fanatism (sv) c
- Tajik: таъассуб (ta'assub), таассуб (taassub)
- Turkish: bağnazlık (tr), fanatiklik (tr), fanatizm (tr)
- Ukrainian: фанати́зм m (fanatýzm), фанати́чність f (fanatýčnistʹ)
- Uzbek: mutaassiblik (uz), fanatizm (uz), fanatiklik (uz)
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