Definition of fundamentalism

n.1.A system of beliefs based on the interpretation of every word in the Bible, both old and new testaments, as literal truth. It is primarily held by a branch of American Protestants.
2.The beliefs or practises based on a rigid adherence to some traditional doctrine; extreme conservatism; as, Moslem fundamentalism; the political fundamentalism of the Christian right.


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Sabbatarianism, bibliolatry, bigotry, dogmatism, evangelicalism, firmness, hardness, hideboundness, hyperorthodoxy, impliability, inexorability, inflexibility, literalism, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, orthodoxy, precisianism, purism, puritanicalness, puritanism, relentlessness, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, sabbatism, scripturalism, staunchness, stiff-neckedness, stiffness, straitlacedness, strict interpretation, strictness, stubbornness, unbendingness, uncompromisingness, unrelentingness, unyieldingness

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