fundamentalism.
The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.
Meaning & usage
The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.
A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets.
The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of a financial instrument.
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
Where this word comes from
From fundamental + -ism. First used in the 1910s by American Christians.
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