13-letter words that end in ism
- contrarianism — Beliefs and practices of a contrarian.
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- corporativism — corporatism
- cosmopolitism — The condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices.
- credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
- cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
- cyberfeminism — A community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist acts in cyberspace.
- dermographism — dermatographia.
- descriptivism — the theory that moral utterances have a truth value
- destructivism — the theory that a part of a whole may be considered a principle part if the destruction of that part would lead to the destruction of the whole
- diageotropism — a diatropic response of plant parts, such as rhizomes, to the stimulus of gravity
- dilettanteism — The condition of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
- dirty realism — a style of writing, originating in the US in the 1980s, which depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life
- discordianism — (recreation) /dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ The veneration of Eris, also known as Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularised by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Illuminatus!" as a sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners - it should on no account be taken seriously but is far more serious than most jokes. Consider, for example, the Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from "Principia Discordia": "A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he Reads." Discordianism is usually connected with an elaborate conspiracy theory/joke involving millennia-long warfare between the anarcho-surrealist partisans of Eris and a malevolent, authoritarian secret society called the Illuminati. See Religion, Church of the SubGenius, and ha ha only serious.
- do-nothingism — the policy or practice of opposing a specific measure or change simply by refusing to consider or act on proposals; deliberate obstructionism.
- doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- ecumenicalism — the doctrines and practices of the ecumenical movement.
- edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
- electromerism — a type of tautomerism in which the isomers (electromers) differ in the distribution of charge in their molecules
- encyclopedism — Comprehensive learning or knowledge.
- epigrammatism — The use of epigrams; epigrammatical character.
- equestrianism — The skill or sport of horse riding . As an Olympic sport it is divided into three disciplines: show jumping, dressage, and the three-day event (combining show jumping, dressage, and cross-country riding).
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
- eurocommunism — the policies, doctrines, and practices of Communist Parties in Western Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, esp those rejecting democratic centralism and favouring nonalignment with the Soviet Union and China
- exhibitionism — Extravagant behavior that is intended to attract attention to oneself.
- 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.
- feuilletonism — The light, entertaining writing style associated with feuilletons.
- filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
- fractionalism — the state of being separate or inharmonious
- functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
- generationism — the belief that some generations are superior to others
- geocentricism — the belief that the earth lies at the centre of the universe
- gynomonoecism — the condition of having female flowers and also flowers that have a pistil and stamen on the same plant
- gyromagnetism — the condition or state of being gyromagnetic
- heliocentrism — The theory that the sun is the center of the universe, (This theory is historically important and was widely accepted at the time of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.).
- hermaphrodism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
- hetero-sexism — a prejudiced attitude or discriminatory practices against homosexuals by heterosexuals.
- heterostylism — the condition of being heterostyled
- hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
- histrionicism — histrionic behaviour or acts
- homeomorphism — similarity in crystalline form but not necessarily in chemical composition.
- homoeroticism — a tendency to be sexually aroused by a member of the same sex.
- homosexualism — A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) individuals of the same sex.
- hopkinsianism — a modified Calvinism taught by Samuel Hopkins (1721–1803), that emphasized the sovereignty of God, the importance of His decrees, and the necessity of submitting to His will, accepting even damnation, if required, for His glory, and holding that ethics is merely disinterested benevolence.
- hyper-realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- hypersplenism — an abnormal condition characterized by an enlarged spleen that prematurely destroys red blood cells or platelets.
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- immaterialism — the doctrine that there is no material world, but that all things exist only in and for minds.