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Cult vs. Fanatic — What's the Difference?

Cult vs. Fanatic — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Cult and Fanatic

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Cult

In modern English, a cult is a social group that is defined by its unusual religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs, or by its common interest in a particular personality, object, or goal. This sense of the term is controversial, having divergent definitions both in popular culture and academia, and has also been an ongoing source of contention among scholars across several fields of study.

Fanatic

A person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm, as for a cause.

Cult

A system of religious veneration and devotion directed towards a particular figure or object
The cult of St Olaf

Fanatic

Fanatical.

Cult

A person or thing that is popular or fashionable among a particular group or section of society
A cult film
The series has become a bit of a cult in the UK
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Fanatic

Fanatical.

Cult

A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader.

Fanatic

(obsolete) Showing evidence of possession by a god or demon; frenzied, overzealous.

Cult

The followers of such a religion or sect.

Fanatic

A person who is zealously enthusiastic for some cause, especially in religion.

Cult

A system or community of religious worship and ritual.

Fanatic

Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions.
But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fastTo some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

Cult

The formal means of expressing religious reverence; religious ceremony and ritual.

Fanatic

A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion.
There is a new word, coined within few months, called fanatics, which, by the close stickling thereof, seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signify what is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age.
Fanatics are governed rather by imagination than by judgment.

Cult

A usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease.

Fanatic

A person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause);
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject

Cult

Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing.

Fanatic

Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea;
Rabid isolationist

Cult

The object of such devotion.

Cult

An exclusive group of persons sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest.

Cult

A group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family members not part of the cult, and show extreme devotion to a charismatic leader.
Two former cult members explain the difficulties they had extricating themselves from it.

Cult

The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint.
The cult of Apollo
The cult of Mary

Cult

(informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
The heavy metal cult; the cult of basketball; the guitarist's cult of loyal fans; the cult of celebrity

Cult

Of or relating to a cult.

Cult

Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.
A cult horror movie

Cult

Alternative form of kvlt.

Cult

Attentive care; homage; worship.
Every one is convinced of the reality of a better self, and of the cult or homage which is due to it.

Cult

A system of religious belief and worship.
That which was the religion of Moses is the ceremonial or cult of the religion of Christ.

Cult

A system of intense religious veneration of a particular person, idea, or object, especially one considered spurious or irrational by traditional religious bodies; as, the Moonie cult.

Cult

The group of individuals who adhere to a cult (senses 2 or 3).

Cult

A strong devotion or interest in a particular person, idea or thing without religious associations, or the people holding such an interest; as, the cult of James Dean; the cult of personality in totalitarian societies.

Cult

Adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices

Cult

An interest followed with exaggerated zeal;
He always follows the latest fads
It was all the rage that season

Cult

A system of religious beliefs and rituals;
Devoted to the cultus of the Blessed Virgin

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