# fundamentalism

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˌfʌndəˈmentəlɪzəm/ · frequency rank #32,001

## Definitions
1. The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.
2. A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets.
3. The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of a financial instrument.
4. 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

## Etymology
From fundamental + -ism. First used in the 1910s by American Christians.

## Easily confused with
- **fundamentals** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fundamentalism-vs-fundamentals)
- **fundamentalist** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fundamentalism-vs-fundamentalist)

## Common misspellings (22)
`ffundamentalism`, `fnudamentalism`, `fudnamentalism`, `funadmentalism`, `fundaemntalism`, `fundamenatlism`, `fundamenntalism`, `fundamentailsm`, `fundamentalims`, `fundamentalismm`, `fundamentalissm`, `fundamentallism`, `fundamentalsim`, `fundamentlaism`, `fundamenttalism`, `fundametnalism`, `fundammentalism`, `fundamnetalism`, `funddamentalism`, `fundmaentalism`, `funndamentalism`, `ufndamentalism`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/fundamentalism