Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.

  2. (broadly, countable, uncountable)A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets.

  3. (countable, uncountable)The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of a financial instrument.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A Christian movement that started in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among British and American Protestants, which emphasizes literal interpretation of the Bible, and came up as a reaction to liberal theology and cultural modernism

    Fundamentalismus

    фундаментали́змfundamentalízm

    фундаменталі́змfundamentalízm

More definitions
  • the strict adherence to the basic principles or doctrines of a religion, ideology, etc.
  • a form of Protestantism that takes the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth

Examples

6 sentences
  1. We must fight religious fundamentalism.

    Ми повинні боротися з релігійним фундаменталізмом.

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  2. It raises the question of fundamentalism.

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  3. The demonstrators chant "long live democracy, long live freedom and down with fundamentalism."

    ruДемонстранты скандируют: "Да здравствует демократия! Да здравствует свобода! Долой фундаментализм!"

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  4. There are occasional outbreaks of religious fundamentalism in Algeria.

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  5. He turned to Islamic fundamentalism.

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Translations

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Origin

From fundamental + -ism. First used in the 1910s by American Christians.

From fundamental + -ism. First used in the 1910s by American Christians.

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