-ism
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The suffix -ism denotes a distinctive system of beliefs, myth, doctrine or theory that guides a social movement, institution, class or group. For example, baptize (literally derived from "to dip") becomes "baptism," a distinctive system of cleansing in water to testify to the forgiveness of sins . It is taken from the Greek suffix -ismos, Latin -ismus, and Old French -isme, that forms nouns from verbal stems. Greek baptismos "immersion", for example, is derived from baptizein, a Greek verb meaning "to immerse". Its usage has since been extended to signify the ideology or philosophy surrounding the element to which the suffix is added.
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Suffix
- the action or result of a verb
- a principle, belief or movement
- chauvinism (coined after Nicolas 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, either for or against a group
- alphabetism (from alphabet)
- nationism (from nation)
- racism (from race)
- religionism (from religion)
- sexism (from sex)
- sexualism (from sexuality)
- ableism (from able)
- heterosexism (from heterosexual)
- the defining attribute of a person or thing
- heroism (from hero)
- Shakespeareanism (coined after William Shakespeare)
- a disorder
- autism (from autós, Greek for "self")
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