Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shaktism

2 senses of shaktism

Sense 1
Shaktism, Saktism -- (a Hindu sect worshiping Shakti)
       => sect, religious sect, religious order -- (a subdivision of a larger religious group)

Sense 2
Shaktism, Saktism -- (worship of Shakti as the wife of Shiva)
       => Hinduism, Hindooism -- (a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils)