Usually means: Intense, excessive devotion to cause.
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  1. extremism: Merriam-Webster
  2. extremism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extremism: Collins English Dictionary
  4. extremism: Vocabulary.com
  5. Extremism, extremism: Wordnik
  6. extremism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. extremism: Wiktionary
  8. extremism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. extremism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. extremism: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. extremism: Dictionary.com
  12. extremism: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Extremism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. extremism: Rhymezone
  15. extremism: FreeDictionary.org
  16. extremism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. extremism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. extremism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ noun:  Extreme ideas or actions, primarily in politics or religion.

Similar:
sextremism, counterextremism, antiextremism, ultra, antiextreme, fanatism, endman, all-outer, ultraist, antiextremist, more...

Opposite:
moderation, centrism

Phrases:
political extremism, religious extremism, Islamic extremism, Violent extremism, more...

Adjectives:
political, religious, wing, islamic, ideological, muslim, violent, islamist, right, revolutionary, radical

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Similar:
sextremism, counterextremism, antiextremism, ultra, antiextreme, fanatism, endman, all-outer, ultraist, antiextremist, more...

Opposite:
moderation, centrism

Phrases:
political extremism, religious extremism, Islamic extremism, Violent extremism, more...

Adjectives:
political, religious, wing, islamic, ideological, muslim, violent, islamist, right, revolutionary, radical

Colors:
    black,     red,     white,     dark green,     brown, more...



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