Rhymes with nepotism
nep·o·tism
N n One-syllable rhymes
- ism — a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice: This is the age of isms.
- prism — Optics. a transparent solid body, often having triangular bases, used for dispersing light into a spectrum or for reflecting rays of light.
- schism — division or disunion, especially into mutually opposed parties.
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.
- despotism — Despotism is cruel and unfair government by a ruler or rulers who have a lot of power.
- 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.
- 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
- expressionism — A style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.
- 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