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Ism

Ism Meaning & Definition
Ism Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ism?

[n] a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ism: doctrine | philosophy | school of thought

Related Terms | Find terms related to Ism: adherents | articles of religion | catechism | church | class | communion | confession | credenda | credo | creed | cult | cultism | denomination | disciples | doctrinal statement | faith | followers | formulated belief | gospel | ideology | mystique | order | persuasion | political faith | political philosophy | religion | school | sect | system of belief | Weltanschauung | world view

See Also | abolitionism | absolutism | amoralism | animalism | animism | belief | church doctrine | creationism | credo | creed | democracy | dogma | dualism | ecumenicalism | ecumenicism | ecumenism | egalitarianism | epicureanism | equalitarianism | expansionism | feminism | formalism | freethinking | functionalism | gospel | gymnosophy | humanism | humanitarianism | imitation | individualism | internationalism | irredentism | irridentism | laissez faire | literalism | majority rule | monism | multiculturalism | nationalism | nihilism | pacifism | passivism | phenomenology | philosophical doctrine | philosophical theory | pluralism | populism | precept | rationalism | reincarnationism | religious doctrine | secessionism | secularism | states' rights | teaching | theological doctrine | unilateralism | utilitarianism

Ism In Webster's Dictionary

\-ism\ [F. -isme, or L. -ismus, Gr. ?.] A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism.
\Ism\, n. [See {ism}, above.] A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory. --E. Everett. The world grew light-headed, and forth came a spawn of isms which no man can number. --S. G. Goodrich.

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