idolismn.
/ˈʌɪdəlɪz(ə)m/ 1. The practice of idolatry.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [noun]
heathenessec900
heathenshipa1000
heathendomc1000
idolatrya1325
mammetryc1330
spiritual fornicationa1340
whoredomc1350
prepucya1382
miscreancea1393
imagery1395
gentility?a1425
paganismc1425
paganityc1450
prepucec1475
Mahometry1481
superstitiousness1526
uncircumcision1526
whoring1530
idolry1535
paynimhood1543
image-worshipping1544
paganrya1550
idololatry1550
gentilism1561
old religion1567
heathenishness1571
image worship1572
heathenry1577
irreligiousness?1577
idolatrousness1583
uncircumcisedness1583
irreligion1598
ethnicism1600
infidelity1603
superstition1603
heathenism1605
idolism1608
miscreancy1611
misreligion1623
Baalisma1625
iconolatry1624
idolomania1624
idolomany1624
idolizing1637
idol-worship1667
ethnicity1772
symbololatry1828
Baal-worship1834
irreligionism1843
gentiledom1844
triology1894
1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 127 Much less permits he..one signe to stand Of idolism, or idle superstition.
1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 127 A People wholly drownd In Idolism, and all rebellious Sins.
1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. E p. xliv Till they have cast out the common Idol.., and with it the whole service and ceremonial of Idolism.
2. The action of idolizing, or making an idol (of anything); an idolization.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > [noun] > immoderate reverence
idolatryc1386
mammetrya1400
worshipa1616
idolizing1637
idolism1816
idolization1853
1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. p. xxxvi. The idolism of the unspiritualized understanding.
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 391 The vaunted Mechanico-corpuscular Philosophy, with both its twins, Materialism on the one hand, and Idealism, rightlier named Subjective Idolism, on the other.
1834 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 35 35 Justice, Modesty..and other poetic idolisms of his new Pantheon.
3. A false mental image or notion, a fallacy: cf. eidolon n., idolum n. 2.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > faint, imperfect idea > [noun] > false
idolum1640
idolism1671
idol1678
fiction1828
pseudo-idea1863
pseudo-concept1866
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 233 How wilt thou reason with them, how refute Thir Idolisms, Traditions, Paradoxes? View more context for this quotation
1897 W. P. Ker Epic & Romance 208 Quite unaffected by the common medieval fallacies and ‘idolisms’.
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