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"With the outbreak of such "-isms" as socialism, anarchism, imperialism, communism, etc., sunspots began to swarm across the face of the diurnal orb. God casts no light on the Reds. Scientists have announced a major increase in sunspots since the advent of beatniks, Provos, and, most of all, pacifist tendencies from Italy, France and Scandinavia."--Z (1969)

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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

  1. the action or result of a verb
    baptism (from baptise)
  2. 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)
  3. 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)
  4. the defining attribute of a person or thing
    heroism (from hero)
    Shakespeareanism (coined after William Shakespeare)
  5. a disorder
    autism (from autós, Greek for "self")
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