ism : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ism	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for ism
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ism n a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school Synonym(s): doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ism
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
-ism \-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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ism \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.