noun
or sak·tism -ˌtizəm
( -s )
Usage: usually capitalized
: a sect comprising the worshipers of Shakti under various names (as Kali, Durga) divided into a mother cult of devotion through contemplation and pure humble activity and a tantric cult with magical orgiastic rites involving the use of wine, meat, fish, grain, and sexual intercourse — called also respectively right-hand Shaktism, left-hand Shaktism