Hinduism
USHIN-doo-iz-uhm/ˈhɪnduɪzəm/
- 1A religion, philosophy, and culture native to India, marked by belief in reincarnation and a single supreme reality expressed through many forms and deities.
Hinduism developed across the Indian subcontinent over thousands of years.
Festivals such as Diwali are celebrated by followers of Hinduism around the world.
Note
A name built in English from Hindu plus -ism, and capitalized like other names of faiths. It is usually uncountable, naming the tradition as a whole, but the plural Hinduisms is available when a writer wants to set its several forms side by side. Reincarnation is the feature comparisons tend to reach for: in BioWare's Mass Effect 2 (2010), the salarian Mordin likens his people's "wheel of life" to "human Hinduism."
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Origin
Formed from Hindu combined with the suffix -ism.