15-letter words that end in lism
- anti-capitalism — an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.
- anti-federalism — U.S. History. a member or supporter of the Antifederal party.
- anti-liberalism — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- anti-naturalism — Literature. a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions. a deterministic theory of writing in which it is held that a writer should adopt an objective view toward the material written about, be free of preconceived ideas as to form and content, and represent with clinical accuracy and frankness the details of life. Compare realism (def 4b). a representation of natural appearances or natural patterns of speech, manner, etc., in a work of fiction. the depiction of the physical environment, especially landscape or the rural environment.
- anti-radicalism — the holding or following of radical or extreme views or principles.
- anticlericalism — opposed to the influence and activities of the clergy or the church in secular or public affairs.
- anticolonialism — the opposition to colonialism
- antimaterialism — an attitude opposed to materialism
- antirationalism — the opposition to rationalism
- autocannibalism — The eating of part of one's own body.
- confessionalism — the belief that a religion, esp Christianity, should have a set of essential doctrines to which members of that religion must adhere
- conventionalism — advocacy of or conformity to that which is established
- departmentalism — division into departments, esp when resulting in impaired efficiency
- endocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
- experientialism — (philosophy) The theory that experience is the source of knowledge.
- experimentalism — An experimental practice or tendency, especially in the arts.
- foundationalism — (epistemology) The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs.
- governmentalism — the trend toward expansion of the government's role, range of activities, or power.
- guild socialism — a form of socialism developed in England in the 20th century, emphasizing decentralization of industry and services with control to be vested in autonomous guilds of workers.
- heterosexualism — Discrimination of non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation.
- hyperadrenalism — a glandular disorder caused by the overactivity of the adrenal glands and often resulting in obesity
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- 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.
- hypocortisolism — (medicine) A cortisol deficiency.
- 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.
- lemon socialism — the policy of a government in a nominally free-market country of bailing out large failing private companies with taxpayers’ money
- 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.
- 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.
- photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
- preferentialism — the economic system of preference, esp amongst British commonwealth countries
- professionalism — professional character, spirit, or methods.
- semicolonialism — the state of being semicolonial
- sound symbolism — a nonarbitrary connection between phonetic features of linguistic items and their meanings, as in the frequent occurrence of close vowels in words denoting smallness, as petite and teeny-weeny.
- state socialism — the theory, doctrine, and movement advocating a planned economy controlled by the state, with state ownership of all industries and natural resources.
- supernaturalism — supernatural character or agency.
- thromboembolism — the blockage of a blood vessel by a thrombus carried through the bloodstream from its site of formation.
- total serialism — (in some music after 1945) the use of serial techniques applied to such elements as rhythm, dynamics, and tone colour, as found in the early works of Stockhausen, Boulez, etc
- ultraliberalism — a belief in or support for an extremely liberal political party or doctrine
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