| CHURNALISMS | • CHURNALISM n. a type of journalism that relies on reusing existing material such as press releases and wire service reports instead of original research. |
| COMMUNALISM | • communalism n. The communal ownership of property. • communalism n. Any social system based around a community. • communalism n. (India) stoking conflict or discrimination based on religious identity. |
| EXTERNALISM | • externalism n. Excessive regard to outward acts or appearances, especially in religion. • externalism n. The act of judging by outward appearance or acts. • externalism n. The belief that only things that can be observed by senses are real. |
| JOURNALISMS | • journalisms n. Plural of journalism. • JOURNALISM n. the collection and editing of news for presentation through the media. |
| MARGINALISM | • marginalism n. (Economics) The use of marginal analysis to solve large classes of microeconomic problems. • MARGINALISM n. an economic theory that the value of a product depends on its value to the final consumer. |
| MATERNALISM | • maternalism n. The treatment of people in a motherly manner, especially by caring for them as a mother would care for her children. • MATERNALISM n. the state of being maternal. |
| NATIONALISM | • nationalism n. Patriotism; the idea of supporting one’s country, people or culture. • nationalism n. Support for the creation of a sovereign nation (which does not currently exist). • nationalism n. (UK, Ireland) Support for the union of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. |
| NOMINALISMS | • nominalisms n. Plural of nominalism. • NOMINALISM n. the doctrine that naming of things defines reality. |
| NOUMENALISM | • NOUMENALISM n. Kant's philosophy of the noumenon. |
| ORIGINALISM | • originalism n. The view that a text should be interpreted according to the intent of its original authors. |
| PATERNALISM | • paternalism n. The treatment of people in a fatherly manner, especially by caring for them and sometimes being stern with them. • PATERNALISM n. a system or tendency in which well-meaning supervision and/or regulation, etc. is apt to become unwelcome interference. |
| PERSONALISM | • personalism n. The character of being personal. • personalism n. (Philosophy) A doctrine of subjective idealism that regards personality as the means of interpreting reality. • PERSONALISM n. the doctrine that humans possess spiritual freedom. |
| RATIONALISM | • rationalism n. (Philosophy) The theory that the reason is a source of knowledge independent of and superior to sense perception. • rationalism n. (Philosophy) The theory that knowledge may be derived by deductions from a priori concepts (such as… • rationalism n. A view that the fundamental method for problem solving is through reason and experience rather than… |
| REGIONALISM | • regionalism n. Affection, often excessive, for one’s own region and to everything related to it. • regionalism n. (Politics) The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to regional governments. • regionalism n. (Countable, linguistics) A word or phrase originating in, characteristic of, or limited to a region. |