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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FANAT'ICISM, n. Excessive enthusiasm; wild and extravagant notions of religion; religious frenzy.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1652 fanatic outlook or behavior

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Fanaticism is fanatical behaviour or the quality of being fanatical. ...a protest against intolerance and religious fanaticism. = extremism [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Religious frenzy, irrational enthusiasm, rabid zeal.

Moby Thesaurus

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