fanaticism

belief or behavior involving uncritical zeal or an obsessive enthusiasm
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fanaticism

Summary

fanaticism ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,638 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • fanaticism is a type of personality trait[2].
  • fanaticism is a type of behavior[3].
  • fanaticism's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Fanaticism[4].
  • fanaticism's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[5].
  • fanaticism's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[6].
  • fanaticism's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[7].
  • fanaticism's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[8].
  • fanaticism's different from is recorded as fan[9].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include personality trait[2] and behavior[3].

Why It Matters

fanaticism ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,638 views/month).[1] fanaticism has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] fanaticism is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → fanaticism
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: fanaticism, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289924902|fanaticism (#289924902)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  2. 15w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0222660-fanatismus
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0222660-fanatismus, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  3. 18w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → fan
    Subclass of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Fanaticism
    Aliases → —
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 14291, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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