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Rhymes with despotism

des·pot·ism
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One-syllable rhymes

  • ism — a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice: This is the age of isms.

Two-syllable rhymes

  • despot — A despot is a ruler or other person who has a lot of power and who uses it unfairly or cruelly.

Three-syllable rhymes

  • centralism — Centralism is a way of governing a country, or organizing something such as industry, education, or politics, which involves having one central group of people who give instructions to everyone else.
  • communism — advocacy of a classless society in which private ownership has been abolished and the means of production and subsistence belong to the community
  • hellenism — ancient Greek culture or ideals.
  • helotism — the state or quality of being a helot; serfdom.
  • mechanism — an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine; linkage.
  • methodism — the doctrines, polity, beliefs, and methods of worship of the Methodists.
  • nepotism — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
  • pessimism — the tendency to see, anticipate, or emphasize only bad or undesirable outcomes, results, conditions, problems, etc.: His pessimism about the future of our country depresses me.

Four-or-more syllable rhymes

  • federalism — the federal principle of government.
  • impressionism — Fine Arts. (usually initial capital letter) a style of painting developed in the last third of the 19th century, characterized chiefly by short brush strokes of bright colors in immediate juxtaposition to represent the effect of light on objects. a manner of painting in which the forms, colors, or tones of an object are lightly and rapidly indicated. a manner of sculpture in which volumes are partially modeled and surfaces roughened to reflect light unevenly.
  • perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
  • protectionism — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.

Four-or-more syllable rhymes

  • defense mechanism — A defense mechanism is a way of behaving or thinking which is not conscious or deliberate and is an automatic reaction to unpleasant experiences or feelings such as anxiety and fear.
  • fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
  • interventionism — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.

Four-or-more syllable rhymes

  • abstract expressionism — a school of painting in New York in the 1940s that combined the spontaneity of expressionism with abstract forms in unpremeditated, apparently random, compositions
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