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ecumenical |
ecumenical council |
ecumenical movement |
ecumenicalism |
ecumenicism |
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ecumenism
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ecumenism has 2 senses
- ecumenism(n = noun.group) oecumenism - a movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches); Array is a kind of front, movement, social movement
- ecumenism(n = noun.communication) ecumenicalism, ecumenicism - (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity; Array is a kind of church doctrine, creed, gospel, religious doctrine
Derived forms adjective ecumenic1, adjective ecumenical1
THESAURUS
ecumenism
Anschluss, addition, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alliance, amalgamation, assimilation, association, bipartisanship, blend, blending, breadth, broad gauge, broad-mindedness, broadness, cabal, cartel, centralization, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, coalescence, coalition, cochairmanship, codirectorship, collaboration, collaborativeness, collectivism, collusion, combination, combine, combo, commensalism, common effort, common enterprise, communalism, communism, communitarianism, community, complicity, composition, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, cooperation, cooperativeness, cosmopolitanism, duet, duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenicity, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, esprit, esprit de corps, federalization, federation, fellow feeling, fellowship, fusion, harmony, hookup, inclusion, incorporation, integration, joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, junction, junta, large-mindedness, latitude, league, marriage, mass action, meld, melding, merger, morale, mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, noninsularity, octet, package, package deal, pooling, pooling of resources, pulling together, quartet, quintet, reciprocity, septet, sextet, solidarity, solidification, spacious mind, symbiosis, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synergism, synergy, synthesis, team spirit, teamwork, tie-up, trio, triumvirate, troika, unbigotedness, unhideboundness, unification, union, united action, unparochialism, unprovincialism, wedding, wide-mindedness
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