Definitions for Hindooism

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Hindooism Hin·doo·ism

Spelling: [hin-doo-iz-uh m]

IPA: /ˈhɪn duˌɪz əm/

Hindooism is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 241 anagrams from letters in Hindooism (dhiimnoos).

Definitions for Hindooism

noun

1. Hinduism.
2. the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many schools of philosophy and theology, many popular cults, and a large pantheon symbolizing the many attributes of a single god. Buddhism and Jainism are outside the Hindu tradition but are regarded as related religions.

Origin of Hindooism

First recorded in 1820-30; Hindu + -ism

Examples for Hindooism

Here we have nothing physical to remind us of any creed but Islamism and Hindooism.

There is no caste in Islam, not even in India, where it is at perpetual war with the castes of Hindooism.

How such "brute beasts" can have any respect or influence, is one of the mysteries of Hindooism.

Perhaps also the movement was halted because their territory was a sort of Holy Land for Hindooism.

But whatever may be urged in favor of Hindooism in the abstract, its practical results are terrible.

The faith of Hindooism is not a mild and harmless form of human credulity.

But the associations of this spot are not all of Hindooism and idolatry.

Such is Hindooism, and such is the condition to which it has reduced the people of India.

This is what Hindooism does for the mother and for her child.

Hindooism has a thousand shapes, spreading out its arms like a mighty banyan tree, but its root is one—Pantheism.