Science Fair Project Dictionary
-ism
English
Suffix
-ism
- Used to form nouns denoting:
- the action or result of a verb
- baptism (from baptise )
- a principle, belief or movement
- chauvinism (coined after Nicholas Chauvin)
- conservatism (from conservative)
- externalism
- feminism (from femina, Latin for woman)
- liberalism
- Marxism (coined after Karl Marx )
- masculism (from masculus, Latin for male)
- a form of prejudice or discrimination against a particular group of people
- alphabetism (from alphabet)
- nationism (from nation)
- racism (from race)
- religionism (from religion)
- sexism (from sex)
- the defining attribute of a person or thing
- heroism (from hero)
- Shakespeareanism (coined after William Shakespeare)
- a disorder
- autism (from autós, Greek for "self")
- the action or result of a verb
Related terms
- -ist
- -istic
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