| ALIENISM | • alienism n. The fact or position of being an alien; alienage. • alienism n. A foreignism, a word (or trait, etc) from another language (or country, etc). • alienism n. (Archaic) The study or treatment of mental disorders; psychiatry. |
| CATECHUMENISM | • catechumenism n. The religious instruction given to a catechumen. • CATECHUMENISM n. being a catechumen. |
| ECUMENISM | • ecumenism n. (Philosophy) Ecumenical doctrines and practices, especially as manifested in the ecumenical movement. • ECUMENISM n. the doctrines and practice of the Christian ecumenical movement. |
| EPICENISM | • epicenism n. The property of being epicene. • EPICENISM n. the state of being epicene, common to both sexes. |
| EUGENISM | • eugenism n. A policy of supporting eugenics. • EUGENISM n. advocacy of eugenics. |
| EXOGENISM | • EXOGENISM n. the state of being exogenous, developing from superficial rather than deep tissue. |
| GOMBEENISM | • gombeenism n. The practice of depending on gombeens, or money-lenders. • GOMBEENISM n. the state of being a gombeen. |
| HEATHENISM | • heathenism n. Paganism, heathendom. • HEATHENISM n. the state of being heathen, also HEATHENDOM, HEATHENESSE. |
| HOYDENISM | • hoydenism n. The behaviour of a hoyden. • HOYDENISM n. the behaviour of a hoyden. |
| HYPHENISM | • hyphenism n. The use of hyphenated terms to describe people’s identities, as in "Irish-American". • HYPHENISM n. the practice of inserting hyphens. |
| LICHENISM | • lichenism n. (Biology) The symbiotic relationship that gives rise to a lichen. • LICHENISM n. the association of fungus and alga as a lichen. |
| MONOGENISM | • monogenism n. The theory that the human races have a common origin, or constitute a single species. • MONOGENISM n. the doctrine of the common descent of all living things, or of any particular group (esp. mankind) from one ancestor or pair. |
| PHENOMENISM | • phenomenism n. Phenomenalism. • PHENOMENISM n. the doctrine that knowledge can only comprehend phenomena, also PHENOMENALISM. |
| PHILHELLENISM | • philhellenism n. A 19th-century intellectual movement which supported the independence of Greece from the Ottoman Empire. • philhellenism n. Love of Greece. • PHILHELLENISM n. a love of Greece. |
| PHRENISM | • phrenism n. (Obsolete) A supposed "thought force" in vitalism. • PHRENISM n. a purported mind-force which directs evolution. |
| PLENISM | • plenism n. The belief that all space is full of matter. • PLENISM n. the doctrine that space is fully occupied by matter. |
| POLYGENISM | • polygenism n. (Ethnology) The belief that humans descended from more than one ancestral pair. • POLYGENISM n. the doctrine that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair. |
| TOKENISM | • tokenism n. A policy of formally complying with efforts to achieve a goal by making small, token gestures; especially… • TOKENISM n. the policy of making only a superficial effort. |