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15-letter words that end in ism

  • hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
  • hyperovarianism — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
  • hyperparasitism — an organism that is parasitic on or in another parasite.
  • hyperthyroidism — overactivity of the thyroid gland.
  • hypocortisolism — (medicine) A cortisol deficiency.
  • hypopituitarism — abnormally diminished activity of the pituitary gland, especially of the anterior lobe.
  • incompatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are incompatible, that one necessarily precludes the other.
  • instrumentalism — the variety of pragmatism developed by John Dewey, maintaining that the truth of an idea is determined by its success in the active solution of a problem and that the value of ideas is determined by their function in human experience.
  • intellectualism — devotion to intellectual pursuits.
  • interventionism — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
  • intransigentism — the policy or set of principles of an intransigent
  • jeffersonianism — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
  • lemon socialism — the policy of a government in a nominally free-market country of bailing out large failing private companies with taxpayers’ money
  • liberal judaism — Reform Judaism.
  • logical atomism — a philosophy developed from linguistic analysis asserting that a proposition can be analyzed into simple, independent elements of meaning corresponding to elements making up basic facts about the world and reality.
  • lower criticism — a form of Biblical criticism having as its purpose the reconstruction of the original texts of the books of the Bible.
  • majoritarianism — rule by a majority, especially the belief that those constituting a simple majority should make the rules for all members of a group, nation, etc.
  • male chauvinism — the beliefs, attitudes, or behavior of male chauvinists (men who patronize, disparage, or otherwise denigrate females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit).
  • mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
  • medical tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
  • metropolitanism — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
  • monoculturalism — The practice of actively preserving a culture to the exclusion of external influences.
  • multilateralism — having several or many sides; many-sided.
  • multilingualism — using or able to speak several or many languages with some facility.
  • natural realism — naive realism.
  • neo-hegelianism — Hegelianism as modified by various philosophers of the latter half of the 19th century.
  • neo-lutheranism — a movement begun in the 19th century in Germany and Scandinavia to revive the orthodox principles, beliefs, and practices of the Lutheran Church.
  • neoconservatism — moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.
  • neoisolationism — a revival of isolationism arising from increased anti-Soviet and anti-European sentiment and a reluctance to involve the nation in further political and military commitments abroad.
  • neomercantilism — an economic doctrine or policy during the early 20th century that set high tariffs and other import restrictions in order to protect domestic industries.
  • non-nationalism — spirit or aspirations common to the whole of a nation.
  • non-rationalism — the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
  • nothingarianism — Beliefs and practices of a nothingarian.
  • objective prism — a large prism placed in front of the objective lens or mirror of a telescope, allowing the simultaneous acquisition of the spectra of many stars.
  • oneirocriticism — the art of interpreting dreams.
  • palaeomagnetism — the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field
  • pan-americanism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the countries of North, Central, and South America.
  • photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
  • poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
  • polysyllabicism — a polysyllabic style
  • pre-romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
  • preferentialism — the economic system of preference, esp amongst British commonwealth countries
  • preformationism — the belief in the theory of preformation
  • presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
  • presentationism — the doctrine that in perception, or in all forms of knowledge, there is an immediate awareness of the things perceived.
  • preservationism — a person who advocates or promotes preservation, especially of wildlife, natural areas, or historical places.
  • professionalism — professional character, spirit, or methods.
  • resurrectionism — the exhumation and stealing of dead bodies, especially for dissection.
  • schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
  • semicolonialism — the state of being semicolonial
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