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What is the noun for cultism?

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cult
  1. (offensive) A group of people with a religious, philosophical or cultural identity sometimes viewed as a sect or NRM, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members.
  2. Devotion to a saint.
  3. A religion that evolved out of another religion but has become a different religion through developing a radically different theology.
  4. (informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “The recruit is introduced slowly to the doctrines and practices of the cult, learning more as cult leaders feel that he is able to accept them without serious temptation to desert his newfound faith.”
      “The most evident example of adherence to the cult of machismo is with Pedro and Pablo Vicario.”
      “The Beliebers are eager to convert you to the cult of teen popster Justin Beiber.”
culthead
  1. (pejorative) A person who belongs to a cult or who has a cult-like attitude to religion.
cultbuster
  1. One who attempts to destroy a cult or cults.
cultishness
  1. The property of being cultish.
cultism
  1. The system or practice of a cult.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Anthony Trollope's masterliness is obscured, first by charges of writing too much and too fast, and then by cultism.”
      “He must snap out of the cocoon of cultism and accept that it's time to hand on to his successor.”
      “Along in this process of cultism, I became his loyal servant and protector.”
cultist
  1. A member of a cult.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Angel speaks of the cultist with contempt and his typical slangy eloquence.”
      “He had been James' idol of sorts, converting James from religious mamma's boy to long-hair satanic cultist.”
      “At the time, every one of those early evangelists was considered a radical cultist by the established church.”
cultbusters
  1. plural of cultbuster
cultheads
  1. plural of culthead
cultists
  1. plural of cultist
cultisms
cults
  1. plural of cult
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “For one thing, devotional cults were also popular within India, and the worship of the Hindu god Krishna antedates Christ by several centuries.”
      “Communes, cults and self-created cultures are often perceived by the larger culture around them as crazy and even dangerous.”
      “Over time, the process of restoration of traditional cults turned to whole-scale obliteration of all things associated with Akhenaten.”
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