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fundamentalism is a noun meaning "a form of Protestantism that takes the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a form of Protestantism that takes the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth
the strict adherence to the basic principles or doctrines of a religion, ideology, etc.
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fundamentalism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.