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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

agitation, authoritarianism, balkiness, bias, bibliolatry, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders, bluster, brawl, broil, brouhaha, bullheadedness, cacophony, chaos, charismatic gift, charismatic movement, charismatic renewal, closed mind, commotion, cramped ideas, dedication, determination, devotedness, devotion, disturbance, doggedness, dogmatism, ebullition, embroilment, enthusiasm, excessiveness, extravagance, extremeness, extremism, fanaticalness, ferment, fervor, fixed mind, flap, fomentation, foofaraw, franticness, frenzy, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, gift of tongues, glossolalia, hardheadedness, headstrongness, hideboundness, hubbub, hysteria, illiberality, infatuation, inflexible will, insularism, insularity, intolerance, little-mindedness, littleness, madness, mania, mean mind, meanness, monomania, mulishness, narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, nearsightedness, obduracy, obsessiveness, obstinacy, obstinateness, odium theologicum, opinionatedness, overambitiousness, overanxiety, overanxiousness, overdevoutness, overeagerness, overenthusiasm, overpiousness, overreaction, overreligiousness, overrighteousness, overzealousness, pandemonium, parochialism, partiality, passion, pentecostalism, perfervidness, perseverance, pertinacity, pettiness, petty mind, pigheadedness, prejudice, provincialism, purblindness, rabidness, racket, rage, restiveness, revival, revivalism, row, ruckus, rumpus, sanctimony, self-will, shortsightedness, shut mind, single-mindedness, smallness, stiff neck, stiff-neckedness, storminess, straitlacedness, strongheadness, stubbornness, stuffiness, sulkiness, sullenness, tempestuousness, tenaciousness, tenacity, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, turmoil, ultrazealousness, uncatholicity, uncooperativeness, unregenerateness, uproar, upset, wildness, willfulness, zeal, zealotism, zealotry, zealousness

Dictionary Results for fanaticism:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

fanaticism
    n 1: excessive intolerance of opposing views [syn: fanaticism,
         fanatism, zealotry]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Fanaticism \Fa*nat"i*cism\, n. [Cf. Fanatism.]
   Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and
   extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion,
   politics or ideology; religious frenzy.

   Syn: See Superstition.
        [1913 Webster]

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