fanaticism
Example Sentences
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There it unfolds—with graceful and terrible inevitability—into a mosaic of abandonment and love, fanaticism and terror.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The conspiratorial nature of true crime fanaticism is kept blessedly brief in the three-episode series.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
His fanaticism made him a hero to his people.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Local fanaticism for this law and tradition cannot be overstated.
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
There was Lieutenant Scheisskopf with his fanaticism for parades and there was the bloated colonel with his big fat mustache and his fanaticism for retribution, and they wanted to kill him, too.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing fanaticism
Power Suffix: -ism
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Elie Wiesel's "Hope, Despair and Memory" (1986)
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