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ism

[iz-uhm]
–noun
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice: This is the age of isms.

Origin:
extracted from words with the suffix -ism
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-ism

a suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it was used to form action nouns from verbs (baptism); on this model, used as a productive suffix in the formation of nouns denoting action or practice, state or condition, principles, doctrines, a usage or characteristic, devotion or adherence, etc. (criticism; barbarism; Darwinism; despotism; plagiarism; realism; witticism; intellectualism).
Compare -ist, -ize.


Origin:
< Gk -ismos, -isma n. suffixes, often directly, often through L -ismus, -isma, sometimes through F -isme, G -ismus (all ult. < Gk)
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ism   (ĭz'əm)   
n.   Informal
A distinctive doctrine, system, or theory: "Formalism, by being an 'ism,' kills form by hugging it to death" (Peter Viereck).

[From -ism.]
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Word Origin & History

-ism 
suffix forming nouns of action, state, condition, doctrine, from Fr. -isme, from L. -isma, from Gk. -isma, from stem of verbs in -izein. Used as an independent word, chiefly disparagingly, from 1680.
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Medical Dictionary

-ism suff.

  1. Action, process; practice: vegetarianism.

  2. Characteristic behavior or quality: puerilism.

  3. State; condition; quality: senilism.

  4. State or condition resulting from an excess of something specified: strychninism.

  5. Doctrine; theory; system of principles: Darwinism.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms
ISM
interstellar medium
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