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VEDISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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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