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Definition of: fundamentalism
(fun′də·men′təl·iz′əm) noun
1. The belief that all statements made in the Bible are literally true.
2. In the United States, a movement among Protestants holding that such belief is essential to Christian faith: opposed to modernism.
—fun′da·men′tal·ist noun
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