Cult vs Culty - What's the difference?
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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.
Resembling a cult
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As adjectives the difference between cult and culty
is that cult is of, or relating to a cult while culty is resembling a cult.As a noun 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.cult
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(wikipedia cult)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cargo cult * cultic * cultistSee also
* sectAdjective
(-)- a cult horror movie
Usage notes
The term has a positive connotation for groups of art, music, writing, fiction, and fashion devotees, but a negative connotation for new religious, extreme political, questionable therapeutic, and pyramidal business groups.Anagrams
* (l) ----culty
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