| -ism | <suffix> 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. Origin: F. -isme, or L. -ismus, Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (20 Jun 2000) |
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| -ismus | <suffix> Most customarily used to imply spasm, contraction. Origin: L. Fr. G. -ismos, suffix forming nouns of action (05 Mar 2000) |