Hindooism vs Sivaism

Sivaism vs Hindooism

Hindooism and Sivaism both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Hindooism	Yes	No	No	No
Sivaism	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Sivaism is a hyponym of Hindooism; that is, Sivaism is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Hindooism:

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
Sivaism: worship of Shiva one of the 3 chief gods of the Hindu pantheon

Other hyponyms of Hindooism include Darsana, Mimamsa, Vedanta, Krishnaism, Shivaism, Saktism, Shaktism, Vaishnavism, Vaisnavism, Vishnuism, Vedism.

Hindooism (noun)	Sivaism (noun)
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	worship of Shiva one of the 3 chief gods of the Hindu pantheon
the religion of most people in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal	a Hindu sect worshiping Shiva

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