What is the difference between catholicism and christianity?
catholicism | christianity | Hypernyms |
The faiths, practices and doctrines of a Catholic Church, but especially of the Roman Catholic Church.
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An Abrahamic religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and various scholars who wrote the Christian Bible.
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Christendom
Christianity is a hypernym of catholicism.
Catholicism is a hyponym of christianity.
As a noun catholicism
is the state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity.catholicism
English
(wikipedia Catholicism)Noun
(en-noun)- Catholicism is the second largest religious body after Sunni Muslims
Hypernyms
* Christianity, trinitarianismCoordinate terms
* Mormonism, Protestantism, Quakerismchristianity
English
Noun
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- As a result, Christianity developed as a separate religion from Judaism.