fonamentalisme — meaning in English

English meaning

• fundamentalism noun The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.

Senses

fonamentalisme is used for these senses in English:

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

fundamentalism — full definition

1. noun The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.
2. noun A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets.
3. noun The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of a financial instrument.
4. noun A Christian movement that started in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among British and American Protestants, which emphasizes literal interpretation of the Bible, and came up as a reaction to liberal theology and cultural modernism