Confraternity vs Cult - What's the difference?
confraternity | cult |
A group of people with a common interest.
A fraternity or brotherhood.
A group of people with a religious, philosophical or cultural identity sometimes viewed as a sect, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members.
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Devotion to a saint.
(lb) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
Of, or relating to a cult.
Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.
As nouns the difference between confraternity and cult
is that confraternity is a group of people with a common interest while cult is a group of people with a religious, philosophical or cultural identity sometimes viewed as a sect, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members.As an adjective cult is
of, or relating to a cult.confraternity
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(confraternities)cult
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(wikipedia cult)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cargo cult * cultic * cultistSee also
* sectAdjective
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