fundamentalism

fundamentalism

English

Etymology

fundamental +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

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Noun

fundamentalism (countable and uncountable, plural fundamentalisms)

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

   Synonym: bibliolatry

2. (by extension) A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets.
   • 2009, Thomas A. Regelski, J. Terry Gates, Music Education for Changing Times: Guiding Visions for Practice

     Recent books by philosopher Roger Scruton (1999, 2000) and music educator Robert Walker (2007) may be interpreted as a last desperate gasp of this form of musical fundamentalism or neoconservativism—the kind that tells the masses what is "good for them" on the grounds that they lack adequate bases for judgments on their own […]

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

Derived terms

• free-market fundamentalism
• Islamic fundamentalism
• market fundamentalism

 

Related terms

• fundamentalist

Translations

religion

Albanian: fondamentalizëm m Arabic: أُصُولِيَّة‎ f (ʾuṣūliyya) Armenian: ֆունդամենտալիզմ (hy) (fundamentalizm) Azerbaijani: fundamentalizm Belarusian: фундаменталі́зм m (fundamjentalízm), фундамэнталі́зм m (fundamentalízm) Bengali: মৌলবাদ (moulôbad) Bulgarian: фундаментали́зъм m (fundamentalízǎm) Catalan: fonamentalisme (ca) m Chechen: фундаментализм (fundamentalizm) Chinese: Mandarin: 原教旨主義／原教旨主义 (zh) (yuánjiàozhǐzhǔyì), 基要派 (jīyàopài) Czech: fundamentalismus m Danish: fundamentalisme c Dutch: fundamentalisme (nl) n Estonian: fundamentalism (et) Finnish: fundamentalismi (fi) French: fondamentalisme (fr) m Georgian: ფუნდამენტალიზმი (pundamenṭalizmi) German: Fundamentalismus (de) m Greek: φονταμενταλισμός (el) (fontamentalismós) Hebrew: פוּנְדָּמֶנְטָלִיזְם‎ (he) m (fundamentalízm) Hindi: कट्टरतावाद m (kaṭṭartāvād) Hungarian: fundamentalizmus (hu) Icelandic: bókstafstrú f Indonesian: fundamentalisme (id) Italian: fondamentalismo (it), integralismo (it) m Japanese: 原理主義 (げんりしゅぎ, genrishugi), 根本主義 (こんぽんしゅぎ, konponshugi) Kazakh: фундаментализм (fundamentalizm) Korean: 근본주의(根本主義) (geunbonjuui), 원리주의(原理主義) (wollijuui) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: binyatîtî (ku) Kyrgyz: фундаментализм (fundamentalizm) Latin: fundamentalismus m Latvian: fundamentālisms m Lithuanian: fundamentalizmas m Macedonian: фундаментали́зам m (fundamentalízam) Malay: fundamentalisme Maori: angawhakapūtanga Norwegian: Bokmål: fundamentalisme m Pashto: بنسټپالنه‎ (ps) m Persian: بنیادگرایی‎ (bonyâd-garâyi) Polish: fundamentalizm (pl) m Portuguese: fundamentalismo (pt) m Romanian: fundamentalism Russian: фундаментали́зм (ru) m (fundamentalízm) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: фундаменталѝзам m Roman: fundamentalìzam (sh) m Slovak: fundamentalizmus m Slovene: fundamentalizem (sl) m Spanish: fundamentalismo (es) Swedish: fundamentalism (sv) c Tajik: бунёдгароӣ‍ (bunyodgaroyī‍) Thai: มูลฐานนิยม (muun-tǎan-ní-yom) Tigrinya: ኣኽራርነት (ʾaxrarnät) Turkish: köktendincilik, köktencilik (tr), fundamentalizm (tr) Turkmen: fundamentalizm Ukrainian: фундаменталі́зм m (fundamentalízm) Urdu: بنیاد پرستی‎ f (boneyâd parasti) Uzbek: fundamentalizm (uz) Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa cơ yếu Yiddish: פֿונדאַמענטאַליזם‎ m (fundamentalizm)

finance

Finnish: fundamentalismi (fi) Portuguese: fundamentalismo (pt) m

See also

• (religion): orthodoxy
• (finance): technical analysis, value investing

References

• fundamentalism at OneLook Dictionary Search
• fundamentalism in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• fundamentalism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

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Romanian

Etymology

From French fondamentalisme.

Noun

fundamentalism n (uncountable)

1. (religion, philosophy) fundamentalism

Declension

declension of fundamentalism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) fundamentalism	fundamentalismul
genitive/dative	(unui) fundamentalism	fundamentalismului
vocative	fundamentalismule