'Bigotry' definitions:
Definition of 'bigotry'
(from WordNet)
noun
The intolerance and prejudice of a bigot [syn: bigotry, dogmatism]
Definition of 'Bigotry'
From: GCIDE
- Bigotry \Big"ot*ry\, n. [Cf. F. bigoterie.]
- 1. The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The practice or tenets of a bigot. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bigotry'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abhorrence,
- abomination,
- Anglophobia,
- anti-Semitism,
- antipathy,
- authoritarianism,
- aversion,
- balkiness,
- bias,
- bibliolatry,
- blind side,
- blind spot,
- blinders,
- bullheadedness,
- closed mind,
- cramped ideas,
- despitefulness,
- determination,
- detestation,
- dislike,
- doggedness,
- dogmaticalness,
- dogmatism,
- evangelicalism,
- excessiveness,
- execration,
- extravagance,
- extremeness,
- extremism,
- fanaticalness,
- fanaticism,
- fixed mind,
- fundamentalism,
- hardheadedness,
- hate,
- hatred,
- headstrongness,
- hideboundness,
- hyperorthodoxy,
- illiberality,
- infallibilism,
- inflexible will,
- insularism,
- insularity,
- intolerance,
- literalism,
- little-mindedness,
- littleness,
- loathing,
- malevolence,
- malice,
- malignity,
- mean mind,
- meanness,
- misandry,
- misanthropy,
- misogyny,
- mulishness,
- narrow sympathies,
- narrow views,
- narrow-mindedness,
- narrowness,
- nearsightedness,
- obduracy,
- obstinacy,
- obstinateness,
- odium,
- odium theologicum,
- opinionatedness,
- overenthusiasm,
- overreaction,
- overreligiousness,
- overzealousness,
- parochialism,
- partiality,
- peremptoriness,
- perfervidness,
- perseverance,
- pertinacity,
- pettiness,
- petty mind,
- pigheadedness,
- positiveness,
- positivism,
- precisianism,
- prejudice,
- provincialism,
- purblindness,
- purism,
- puritanicalness,
- puritanism,
- rabidness,
- race hatred,
- racism,
- repugnance,
- restiveness,
- Russophobia,
- Sabbatarianism,
- sabbatism,
- scripturalism,
- self-opinionatedness,
- self-will,
- shortsightedness,
- shut mind,
- smallness,
- spite,
- spitefulness,
- staunchness,
- stiff neck,
- stiff-neckedness,
- straitlacedness,
- strict interpretation,
- strictness,
- strongheadness,
- stubbornness,
- stuffiness,
- sulkiness,
- sullenness,
- tenaciousness,
- tenacity,
- ultrazealousness,
- uncatholicity,
- uncooperativeness,
- unregenerateness,
- vials of hate,
- vials of wrath,
- willfulness,
- xenophobia,
- zealotism,
- zealotry