-ism

/ɪzəm/

• the act, practice, or process of doing something
1. criticism
2. plagiarism
3. hypnotism
• behavior like that of a specified kind of person or thing
1. heroism
• unfair treatment of a group of people who have a particular quality
1. racism
2. sexism
• the state or fact of being a specified kind of person or thing
1. skepticism
2. fanaticism
• abnormal state or condition
1. alcoholism
2. dwarfism
• teachings or beliefs
1. Buddhism
2. Marxism
3. socialism
4. stoicism
5. realism
• a word that is from a specified source
1. a Latinism [=a word or phrase that comes from a Latin word or phrase]
• a word that has a specified quality
1. a colloquialism