| ABOLITIONISM | • abolitionism n. Support for the abolition of something; the tenets of abolitionists. • abolitionism n. (Historical, US) Support for the abolition of slavery. • ABOLITIONISM n. principles or measures fostering abolition esp. of slavery. | 
| CAUSATIONISM | • causationism n. (Philosophy) Belief in a first cause. • CAUSATIONISM n. the principle of universal causation. | 
| COALITIONISM | • coalitionism n. The advocacy of government by coalition. • COALITIONISM n. the forming of a coalition. | 
| CREMATIONISM | • cremationism n. The advocacy of cremation as a means of disposal of the dead. • CREMATIONISM n. the policy of burning dead bodies. | 
| DEVIATIONISM | • deviationism n. Deviation from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of communism. • DEVIATIONISM n. the deviation of a doctrine from the strictly orthodox. | 
| EVOLUTIONISM | • evolutionism n. (Countable) Any of several theories that explain the evolution of systems or organisms. • evolutionism n. (Uncountable) The belief in the universal presence of evolution. • evolutionism n. (Uncountable) The advocacy of Darwinian evolution by natural selection (Darwinism). | 
| INFLATIONISM | • inflationism n. (Economics) A policy or belief that encourages inflation. • INFLATIONISM n. the policy of economic inflation. | 
| INTUITIONISM | • intuitionism n. (Mathematics) An approach to mathematics/logic which avoids proof by contradiction, and which requires… • INTUITIONISM n. the belief that the perception of truth is by intuition. | 
| ISOLATIONISM | • isolationism n. A national (or group) policy of non-interaction with other nations (or groups). • ISOLATIONISM n. a policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations. | 
| OPERATIONISM | • operationism n. (Philosophy) The doctrine that the meaning of a term consists of the operation(s) performed in defining it. • OPERATIONISM n. the theory that defines scientific concepts by means of the operations used to prove or determine them, also OPERATIONALISM. | 
| REDUCTIONISM | • reductionism n. An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components. • reductionism n. (Philosophy) A philosophical position which holds that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its… • REDUCTIONISM n. the belief that complex phenomena are reducible to simple ones. | 
| SALTATIONISM | • saltationism n. (Evolutionary theory) The belief that evolution operates by the sudden development of new species or… • SALTATIONISM n. punctuation in evolution. | 
| SALVATIONISM | • salvationism n. A belief system that places the responsibility for the fulfillment of humanity outside itself, usually… • salvationism n. The religious doctrine of the salvation of the soul. • SALVATIONISM n. religious teaching emphasizing the saving of the soul. | 
| SENSATIONISM | • SENSATIONISM n. exploitation of the sensational. | 
| SITUATIONISM | • situationism n. (Psychology) A school of thought which holds that personality is more influenced by external factors… • situationism n. (Politics) A mid-20th-century offshoot of Marxism, influenced by avant-garde art movements. • SITUATIONISM n. the theory that behaviour is determined by surrounding situations rather than by personal qualities. |