iconoclasm Definition

iconoclast
noun

1. especially church history.
Someone who destroys religious images and is opposed to their use in worship.
Thesaurus: heretic, skeptic; dissenter, nonconformist, critic, dissident, opponent, radical, rebel, maverick.
2. Someone who is opposed to, and attacks, traditional and cherished beliefs and superstitions.

Derivative: iconoclasm
noun

Opposition to traditional and cherished beliefs
Thesaurus: skepticism, irreverence, radicalism, opposition, subversion, dissent, criticism, heresy, denunciation, disabusing, dissidence, questioning; Antonym: credulity, trustfulness.

Derivative: iconoclastic
adj

Etymology: 17c: from Latin iconoclastes, from Greek eikon image + klastes breaker.