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Shaktism

noun

1. a Hindu sect worshiping Shakti

• Syn: ↑Saktism

• Derivationally related forms: ↑Shaktist (for: ↑Saktism), ↑Shaktist

• Hypernyms: ↑sect, ↑religious sect, ↑religious order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Hinduism, ↑Hindooism

• Member Meronyms: ↑Shaktist

2. worship of Shakti as the wife of Shiva

• Syn: ↑Saktism

• Derivationally related forms: ↑Shaktist (for: ↑Saktism), ↑Shaktist

• Hypernyms: ↑Hinduism, ↑Hindooism

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/shuk"tiz euhm, shahk"-/, n. Hinduism.

the worship of Shakti as the wife of Shiva.

Also, Saktism.

[1900-05; SHAKT(I) + -ISM]

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Sakˈtism or Shakˈtism noun

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Main Entry: ↑Sakti

Useful english dictionary. 2012.