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A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act ora process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine,idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism,sensualism, Anglicism.
-ism meaning & definition 1 of -ism.
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a set of beliefs, especially ones that you disapprove of:
-ism meaning & definition 2 of -ism.