Synonyms for bigotry
ˈbɪg ə tribig·ot·ry

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1. 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, superstition

   Antonyms:
   cynicism, free-thinking, indifference, latitudinarianism

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1. bigotry

   Synonyms:
   prejudice, pharisaism, obstinacy, credulity, fanaticism, intolerance, superstition

   Antonyms:
   liberality, charity, enlightenment, toleration, eclecticism, latitudinarianism

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1. bigotry, dogmatismnoun

   the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot

   Synonyms:
   dogmatism

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1. • Intolerance

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1. bigotrynoun

   Synonyms:
   prejudice, intolerance, blind zeal

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1. bigotrynoun

   Synonyms:
   intolerance, dogmatism, narrow-mindedness

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1. List of paraphrases for "bigotry":

   fanaticism, intolerance, sectarianism, narrow-mindedness, prejudice, obscurantism, bias

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1. Los Angeles-based:

   Trump is an insult and embarrassment. But he represents the country we have become, zERO experience ... Flaunting a ticket of unbridled bigotry, sexism, racism and everything that is wrong with America.

2. G. K. Chesterton:

   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.

3. Tim Miller:

   We advanced arguments none of us believed, we made people feel aggrieved about issues we had no intent or ability to solve. ... We spurred racial resentments and bigotry among voters while prickling at anyone who might accuse us of racism.

4. Cheng Jingye:

   It is my belief that in order to ... achieve sustained and sound development in bilateral relations the two countries need to have more interaction and inclusiveness with less bias and bigotry.

5. Chelsea Clinton:

   We also have to break through the barriers of bigotry. African-American parents shouldn't have to worry that their children will be harassed, humiliated, even shot because of the color of their skin, i believe so strongly that we have to keep up with every fiber of our being the argument for, the campaign for human rights. Human rights as women's rights, human rights as gay rights, human rights as worker rights, human rights as voting rights, human rights across the board for every single American. Now, that is who I am.