fanatisme
French, noun/fa.na.tism/
fanatisme is spelled F-A-N-A-T-I-S-M-E (9 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written French, the 23,795th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fanatisme is a French masculine noun meaning “fanaticism (the characteristic or practice of being a fanatic)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Zèle outré, et souvent cruel, pour une religion, ou, par extension, attachement opiniâtre et violent à un…”.
What does fanatisme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefanaticism (the characteristic or practice of being a fanatic)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Zèle outré, et souvent cruel, pour une religion, ou, par extension, attachement opiniâtre et violent à un parti, à une opinion, etc.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fanatisme
- fanatismes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fanatisme?
- /fa.na.tism/
- /fa.na.tizm/
- \fa.na.tism\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fanatisme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fanatisme in French?
fanatisme appears 1.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).