Associations to the word «Fundamentalism»

Wiktionary

FUNDAMENTALISM, noun. (religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.
FUNDAMENTALISM, noun. (finance) The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of an instrument.
FUNDAMENTALISM, noun. The beliefs held by those in this movement.
FUNDAMENTALISM, noun. Strict adherence to any set of basic ideas or principles.

Dictionary definition

FUNDAMENTALISM, noun. The interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky