Flag burning is iconoclasm.
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Iconoclasm
//aɪˈkɒnəˌklæzəm//
Synonyms for "iconoclasm" (3 found)
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4 entriesTranslations
34 translations across 22 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- պատկերամարտություն noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
Catalan
1 entries- iconoclàstia noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 破壞偶像主義 /破坏偶像主义 noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
Czech
2 entries- ikonoklasmus noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
- obrazoborectví noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
Danish
2 entries- billedstorm noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
- ikonoklasme noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
Dutch
2 entries- beeldenstorm noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
- iconoclasme noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
Esperanto
1 entries- ikonoklasmo noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
Finnish
1 entries- ikonoklasmi noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
French
1 entries- iconoclasme noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
Georgian
1 entries- ხატმებრძოლეობა noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
German
3 entries- Bildersturm noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
- Bilderstürmerei noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
- Ikonoklasmus noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
Hungarian
2 entries- képrombolás noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
- polgárpukkasztás noun (by extension: attacking cherished beliefs)
Indonesian
1 entries- ikonoklasme noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
Italian
1 entries- iconoclastia noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
Japanese
1 entries- 偶像破壊 noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
Polish
2 entries- ikonoklazm noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
- obrazoburstwo noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
Portuguese
1 entries- iconoclastia noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
Russian
2 entries- иконоборчество noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
- иконоклазм noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
Spanish
2 entries- iconoclasia noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
- iconoclastia noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
Swedish
2 entries- bildstorm noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
- ikonoklasm noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
Ukrainian
2 entries- іконобо́рство noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
- іконокла́зм noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
Welsh
2 entries- delwddrylliad noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
- eiconoclastiaeth noun (belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons)
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Finally, “iconoclasm” is a form of desecration and shares its general intention to deny the sacred qualities of an image and to demonstrate that it has no power, to prevent it from being treated as an idol or a rival to God.¹⁴ But not all forms of desecration constitute iconoclasm, though iconoclasm is always a form of desecration.
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