VEDISM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The form of Hinduism that revolves primarily around the mythic version and ritual ideologies in the Vedas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Vedism" is a kind of...):

Hindooism; Hinduism (a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils)

Derivation:

Vedist (a scholar of or an authority on the Vedas)

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