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fanaticism
fanaticism Fanaticism is an unbalanced, exaggerated form of enthusiasm marked by credulous belief and intense feeling that may turn into hostility or violence toward opponents.
Fanaticism is an unbalanced, exaggerated form of enthusiasm marked by credulous belief and intense feeling that may turn into hostility or violence toward opponents. In historical psychological writing, it was treated as a partly pathological state on the border between sanity and insanity and as something that can spread through mental contagion.