fanatic

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  1. noun A person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm, as for a cause.
  2. adjective Fanatical.

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enthusiast ·  madman ·  hypocrite ·  adventurer ·  fool ·  tyrant ·  fanatical ·  patriot ·  idiot ·  rebel ·  devotee ·  believer

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fanatic:   fanatics
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  1. Latin fānāticus, inspired by orgiastic rites, pertaining to a temple, from fānum, temple; see dhēs- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly fanatick; = French fanatique = Spanish fanático = Portuguese Italian fanatico = Dutch fanatiek (cf. German fanatisch = Danish Swedish fanatisk), from Latin fanaticus, pertaining to a temple, inspired by a divinity, enthusiastic, frantic, furious, mad, from fanum, a temple: see fane.
 

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