catharism

Noun catharism has 1 sense

• catharism(n = noun.cognition) albigensianism - a Christian movement considered to be a medieval descendant of Manichaeism in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; characterized by dualism (asserted the coexistence of two mutually opposed principles, one good and one evil); was exterminated for heresy during the Inquisition;
is a kind of heresy, unorthodoxy, christian religion, christianity