fundamentalism
noun
Simple meaning
A Christian movement that started in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among British and American Protestants.
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IPA pronunciation (US)
fəndəˈmɛntəlɪzəm
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Definition
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noun
religion
The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.
theology
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
by extension
A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets.
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- Difficulty
- C1 · Advanced (estimated)
- Frequency
- Uncommon
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