fanaticism
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Participants completed the Football Supporters Fanaticism Scale, a 13-item questionnaire measuring two aspects of fandom: "Inclination to Violence" and "Sense of Belongingness."
From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025
Linguist Amanda Montell, author of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, explains people can "erect a cult around anything, as long as you can inject it with fear and an 'us-versus-them' mentality".
From BBC • Aug. 1, 2025
Among the provisions: Legislation designed to speed trials in terrorism-related cases and the formation of a Supreme Council to Combat Terrorism and Fanaticism, which gave some Egyptians hope of added security.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2017
Fanaticism always seems foolish until it locks you up.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017
Fanaticism in war, of the type that drove recorded Christian and Islamic conquests, was probably unknown on Earth until chiefdoms and especially states emerged within the last 6,000 years.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing fanaticism
Power Suffix: -ism
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Elie Wiesel's "Hope, Despair and Memory" (1986)
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