lionism (English, noun)
expansion: lionism (plural lionisms)
Senses:
glosses: The 19th-century practice of bringing a lion (“an interesting person or object”) into one’s home as entertainment for visitors.
tags: historical
glosses: The state of being the lion (see above) of 19th-century hosts.
tags: historical
glosses: The practice of lionizing (“treating a person as a celebrity or someone important”); also, the state of being lionized.
tags: broadly
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The state of a person having a leonine facies, that is, facial features which resemble those of a lion as a result of some disease, especially a form of leprosy which causes leontiasis (“a medical condition characterized by an overgrowth of the cranial and facial bones”).
glosses: The ideals of Rastafarianism.
tags: Rastafari
Forms:
form: lionisms
tags: plural
form: Lionism
tags: alternative