Word: veganism
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: ve
gan
ism
Definition: A belief that is against the killing of animals for meat consumption; the antithesis to carnism.
Morphemes:
Affix: vegan
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A person committed to avoiding products and practices that inherently involve animal use, including all foods containing animal products, and to abstaining from direct and intentional harm to animals as far as possible; an adherent to veganism.
Affix: -ism
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form names of a tendency of behaviour, action, state, condition or opinion belonging to a class or group of persons, or the result of a doctrine, ideology or principle or lack thereof.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -ισμός
Language: grc
Decoded: -ismos
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Forms abstract nouns.