ism : Idioms & Phrases

-ism

Etymology

F. -isme, or L. -ismus, Gr. .

Definitions

1. A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism.

Webster 1913