as in intolerance
stubborn or intolerant adherence to one's opinions or prejudices
a man much given to inflexible dogmatism when it came to the role of government in regulating the economy
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Recent Examples of dogmatism
But for the audience the scariest revelation in the conversation isn’t his dogmatism.
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Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2026
As the container of our culture’s internal contradictions, including dogmatism and pragmatism, individualism and communitarianism, and Biercean indignation and Emersonian transcendence, hardcore is as American as atomic warfare.
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Chris R. Morgan,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
Paul himself was radically redeemed from an extreme level of self-righteousness, dogmatism, and violence through Christ, the message of God’s love that brings spiritual truth to light in human consciousness.
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Tony Lobl,
Christian Science Monitor,
19 Feb. 2025
Today, religious dogmatism is often equated with vaccine hesitancy and resistance to basic scientific truths like evolution.
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Meg Leja,
The Conversation,
2 Nov. 2023
See All Example Sentences for dogmatism
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2026
As the container of our culture’s internal contradictions, including dogmatism and pragmatism, individualism and communitarianism, and Biercean indignation and Emersonian transcendence, hardcore is as American as atomic warfare.
—
Chris R. Morgan,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
Paul himself was radically redeemed from an extreme level of self-righteousness, dogmatism, and violence through Christ, the message of God’s love that brings spiritual truth to light in human consciousness.
—
Tony Lobl,
Christian Science Monitor,
19 Feb. 2025
Today, religious dogmatism is often equated with vaccine hesitancy and resistance to basic scientific truths like evolution.
—
Meg Leja,
The Conversation,
2 Nov. 2023
See All Example Sentences for dogmatism
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dogmatism
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Meanwhile, back in the 1990s, suspicious foes and new strains of mutant intolerance are on the rise in the wake of the X-Men’s absence.
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Both are generally safe, although kefir may not be suitable for those with lactose intolerance or a milk allergy.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone created a show directly informed by millennials and Gen Xers growing up in a culture of gun violence, fear, moralizing, bigotry, war and division.
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Gabbard's team and a spokesperson for SIF called the reporting anti-Hindu religious bigotry.
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For much of the past several decades, overt expressions of racial prejudice became increasingly socially unacceptable in mainstream public life.
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Ableism is the everyday prejudice — sometimes subtle, sometimes overt — that treats people with disabilities as inconvenient, less competent, or less deserving of respect and opportunity.
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Resorting to violence merely strengthens the forces of illiberalism and sense of disorder upon which Trumpism feeds.
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The signal predicament of our era is the global rise of illiberalism and intolerance.
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Meanwhile, Grok showed the strongest biases, highly favoring Catholics and Protestants while showing an aversion for Jehovah’s Witnesses, Baha’i and Hindus.
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In fact, Smith has long argued that the NFL has overlooked Black candidates at those positions because of racial bias.
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On Monday, Kiley called those results historical and a sign that voters in the district are rejecting partisanship.
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Club America would focus more on patriotism than on partisanship, encouraging students to put up flags and stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
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The show gestures at the classic targets of old-timey sexism, small-mindedness, and nativism—much of it embodied by Gasteyer’s scheming character—but only in the safest possible ways.
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“Dogmatism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dogmatism. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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