# ism
## English
### Etymology

From the suffix -ism (“belief”), particularly (in the 19th century) in the sense of "social movement". Compare phobia, from -phobia, sophy, from -sophy, itis, from -itis, and ana, from -ana.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɪz.əm/
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* Rhymes: -ɪzəm

### Noun

ism (plural isms)
* An ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism.
    Synonym: whateverism
** 1843, Thomas Carlyle, chapter XV, in Past and Present‎, book 2:[…] his religion, his worship was like his daily bread to him; — which he did not take the trouble to talk much about; which he merely ate at stated intervals, and lived and did his work upon! This is Abbot Samson’s Catholicism of the Twelfth Century; — something like the Ism of all true men in all true centuries, I fancy! Alas, compared with any of the Isms current in these poor days, what a thing!
** 1887 August, W[illiam] G[raham] Sumner, “State Interference”, in North American Review:If it gives way to sentimentalism, or sensibility, or political mysticism, or adopts an affectation of radicalism, or any other ism, or molds its institutions so as to round out to a more complete fulfillment somebody's theory of the universe, it may fall into an era of revolution and political insecurity […]
** 1965, Bertram David Wolfe, Marxism, One Hundred Years in the Life of a Doctrine, page 357:An ism does not have to possess the fearful implements of state power to cut off a deviant or heretical member.
** 1969, Walter E. Minchinton, Mercantilism; System Or Expediency?, page xi:In his exposition, he has failed to achieve the identification of situation, theory, and policy necessary to create an ism.
** 1986, John Hughes, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, spoken by Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick):Isms in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an ism – he should believe in himself.
** 1994, Kenneth Kaye, Workplace Wars and How to End Them, page 70:It is important to distinguish between an ism and a mere generalization about group differences. Generalizations that have statistical validity are not isms. An ism assumes that the generalization applies to an individual.
* (specifically) A form of discrimination, such as racism or sexism.

#### Derived terms

* isms and schisms

#### Translations

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#### See also

* ideology
* ist
* philosophy
* wasm

### Further reading

* "isms" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 173.

### Anagrams

* IMS, IMs, MIS, MIs, MSI, SIM, Sim, mis-, sim

## Abinomn
### Noun

ism
* root (of a plant)

## Cypriot Arabic
### Etymology

Inherited from Arabic اِسْم (ism).

### Noun

ism (plural ismát)
* name

### References

* Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 141

## Tashelhit
### Etymology

From Proto-Berber *(H)isVm-, from Proto-Afroasiatic *(ʔi-)sim-. Cognate with Arabic اسم (ism), Hebrew שם (shém) and Hausa sū́nā́

### Noun

ism m (plural ismawn)
* name

## Uzbek
### Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai اِسْم (ism, “name”), from Classical Persian اِسْم (ism, “name”), from Arabic اِسْم m (ism, “name”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔɪsm/, [ʔsm]
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* Hyphenation: ism

### Noun

ism (plural ismlar)
* name
* (grammar) noun

#### Synonyms

* ot
* nom