Society vs. Cult

Societynoun

(countable) A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.

Societynoun

(countable) A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.

Societynoun

(countable) The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.

Societynoun

(uncountable) The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.

Societynoun

(uncountable) High society.

Societynoun

A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal.

Societynoun

The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.

Societynoun

Connection; participation; partnership.

Societynoun

A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.

Societynoun

The persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances.

Societynoun

Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.

Societynoun

an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

Societynoun

a formal association of people with similar interests;

Societynoun

the state of being with someone;

Societynoun

the fashionable elite

Societynoun

the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community

Societynoun

the community of people living in a particular country or region and having shared customs, laws, and organizations

Societynoun

a specified section of society

Societynoun

the aggregate of people who are fashionable, wealthy, and influential, regarded as forming a distinct group in a community

Societynoun

a plant or animal community

Societynoun

an organization or club formed for a particular purpose or activity

Societynoun

the situation of being in the company of other people

Society

A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent of members.

Cultnoun

A group or sect of people with a religious, philosophical or cultural identity, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members.

Cultnoun

Devotion to a saint.

Cultnoun

A religion that evolved out of another religion but has become a different religion through developing a radically different theology.

Cultnoun

(informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.

Cultadjective

Of or relating to a cult.

Cultadjective

Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.

Cultnoun

Attentive care; homage; worship.

Cultnoun

A system of religious belief and worship.

Cultnoun

A system of intense religious veneration of a particular person, idea, or object, especially one considered spurious or irrational by traditional religious bodies; as, the Moonie cult.

Cultnoun

The group of individuals who adhere to a cult (senses 2 or 3).

Cultnoun

A strong devotion or interest in a particular person, idea or thing without religious associations, or the people holding such an interest; as, the cult of James Dean; the cult of personality in totalitarian societies.

Cultnoun

adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices

Cultnoun

an interest followed with exaggerated zeal;

Cultnoun

a system of religious beliefs and rituals;

Cultnoun

a system of religious veneration and devotion directed towards a particular figure or object

Cultnoun

a relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or as imposing excessive control over members

Cultnoun

a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular thing

Cultnoun

a person or thing that is popular or fashionable among a particular group or section of society

Cult

In modern English, a cult is a social group that is defined by its unusual religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs, or by its common interest in a particular personality, object, or goal. This sense of the term is controversial, having divergent definitions both in popular culture and academia, and has also been an ongoing source of contention among scholars across several fields of study.