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Synonyms for bigotry
ˈbɪg ə tribig·ot·ry
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
bigotry
Fanaticism is extravagant or even frenzied zeal; bigotry is obstinate and unreasoning attachment to a cause or creed; fanaticism and bigotry usually include intolerance, which is unwillingness to tolerate beliefs or opinions contrary to one's own; superstition is ignorant and irrational religious belief. Credulity is not distinctively religious, but is a general readiness to believe without sufficient evidence, with a proneness to accept the marvellous. Bigotry is narrow, fanaticism is fierce, superstition is ignorant, credulity is weak, intolerance is severe. Bigotry has not the capacity to reason fairly, fanaticism has not the patience, superstition has not the knowledge and mental discipline, intolerance has not the disposition. Bigotry, fanaticism, and superstition are perversions of the religious sentiment; credulity and intolerance often accompany skepticism or atheism.
Synonyms:
credulity, fanaticism, intolerance, superstitionAntonyms:
cynicism, free-thinking, indifference, latitudinarianism
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
bigotry
Synonyms:
prejudice, pharisaism, obstinacy, credulity, fanaticism, intolerance, superstitionAntonyms:
liberality, charity, enlightenment, toleration, eclecticism, latitudinarianism
Princeton's WordNet
bigotry, dogmatismnoun
the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot
Synonyms:
dogmatism
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bigotrynoun
Synonyms:
prejudice, intolerance, blind zeal
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
bigotrynoun
Synonyms:
intolerance, dogmatism, narrow-mindedness
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List of paraphrases for "bigotry":
fanaticism, intolerance, sectarianism, narrow-mindedness, prejudice, obscurantism, bias
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#6805 | bias | |
#10456 | prejudice | |
#22209 | intolerance | |
#28924 | superstition | |
#33837 | bigotry | |
#56878 | fanaticism | |
#82726 | sectarianism | |
#93458 | credulity | |
#104632 | obstinacy | |
#110097 | dogmatism | |
#248162 | obscurantism |
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Folks are just so angry. They're angry about enduring racism, they're angry about the incompetent response to COVID, they're angry about bigotry and racism, about anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, and white supremacy.
We find these attacks on Ammar Yasser Najjar to be disgraceful and very obviously rooted in bigotry and fear mongering, they quite clearly have no foundation in fact. They are not about policy. They are not about security. They are about trying to fear-monger on the basis of Ammar's Arab and Hispanic heritage.
As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you as fellow revolutionaries. Neither you nor I are willing to accept the tyranny of poverty, nor the dictatorship of ignorance, nor the despotism of ill health, nor the oppression of bias and prejudice and bigotry. We want change. We want progress. We want it both abroad and at homeand we aim to get it.
We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence – on many sides, on many sides. This has been going on for a long time in our country.
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
Translations for bigotry
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- تعصب أعمىArabic
- Fanatismus, BigotterieGerman
- intolerancia, discriminaciónSpanish
- تعصبPersian
- kiihkoilu, fanaattisuusFinnish
- bigoterieFrench
- dalm-bheachdScottish Gaelic
- कट्टरताHindi
- bigottismoItalian
- גזענותHebrew
- 偏見Japanese
- kwezelarij, bigotterieDutch
- preconceito, fanatismoPortuguese
- мракобесие, фанатизм, ханжество, нетерпимостьRussian
- mračnjaštvo, мрачњаштвоSerbo-Croatian
- bigotteriSwedish
- bağnazlıkTurkish
- 偏执Chinese
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