12-letter words that end in nism
- abolitionism — the principle or policy of abolition, especially of slavery of blacks in the U.S.
- antifeminism — the opposition to feminism
- antihumanism — opposition to humanism
- asynchronism — a lack of synchronism; occurrence at different times
- barbarianism — a person in a savage, primitive state; uncivilized person.
- bio-organism — a dangerous fast-proliferating organism that could be used as the basis of a biological weapon
- causationism — the theory of universal causation
- cessationism — The concept, amongst most Christians, that the works of the Holy Spirit (speaking in tongues, prophecy, healing, and miracles) ceased at some point in history.
- charlatanism — the practice or method of a charlatan.
- christianism — the beliefs and practices of Christians.
- coalitionism — the principle of governing by coalition
- confucianism — the ethical system of Confucius, emphasizing moral order, the humanity and virtue of China's ancient rulers, and gentlemanly education
- deviationism — ideological deviation (esp from orthodox Communism)
- diffusionism — the theory or principle that diffusion is the main force in cultural innovation and change.
- dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- ecotarianism — the principle or practice of avoiding eating any foods whose production or transportation are considered ecologically damaging
- emanationism — A religious concept that everything is derived from emanations from a god.
- epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
- evolutionism — (countable) Any of several theories that explain the evolution of systems or organisms.
- exclusionism — The quality of being exclusionist.
- expansionism — The policy of territorial or economic expansion.
- extropianism — Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
- gregarianism — the practice of living or clustering together in crowds or flocks
- hobgoblinism — a belief in hobgoblins
- immersionism — the doctrine that immersion is essential to Christian baptism.
- inflationism — the policy or practice of inflation through expansion of currency or bank deposits.
- intuitionism — Ethics. the doctrine that moral values and duties can be discerned directly.
- isolationism — the policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements, etc., seeking to devote the entire efforts of one's country to its own advancement and remain at peace by avoiding foreign entanglements and responsibilities.
- metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
- microphonism — a usually undesirable property of some electronic circuits or components in which mechanical vibrations of a component affect the signal being transmitted through the circuit.
- neonomianism — the doctrine in Christian theology that the Gospel of Christ is a new Law, completely supplanting the Mosaic Law
- neoplatonism — a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
- nestorianism — one of a sect of followers of Nestorius who denied the hypostatic union and were represented as maintaining the existence of two distinct persons in Christ.
- new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
- operationism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
- pan-asianism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance of all the Asian nations.
- panhellenism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all Greeks in one political body.
- parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
- parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
- philistinism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
- precisionism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
- pro-feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
- receptionism — the doctrine that in the communion service the communicant receives the body and blood of Christ but that the bread and wine are not transubstantiated.
- reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- saltationism — any of several theories holding that the evolution of species proceeds in major steps by the abrupt transformation of an ancestral species into a descendant species of a different type, rather than by the gradual accumulation of small changes.
- samaritanism — an inhabitant of Samaria.
- secessionism — a person who secedes, advocates secession, or claims secession as a constitutional right.
- sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
- sensationism — a theory of psychology maintaining that experience consists solely of sensations.
- situationism — the theory that behavior is chiefly response to immediate situations.
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