Words that rhyme with agrarianism

  • authoritarianism
    n 1: a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) [syn: dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny]
  • egalitarianism
    n 1: the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality [syn: egalitarianism, equalitarianism]
  • sectarianism
    n 1: a narrow-minded adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination; "he condemned religious sectarianism" [syn: sectarianism, denominationalism]
  • totalitarianism
    n 1: a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) [syn: dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny] 2: the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government [syn: absolutism, totalitarianism, totalism]
  • utopianism
    n 1: the political orientation of a Utopian who believes in impossibly idealistic schemes of social perfection
  • valetudinarianism
    n 1: the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) [syn: infirmity, frailty, debility, feebleness, frailness, valetudinarianism]
  • vegetarianism
    n 1: a diet excluding all meat and fish
  • volcanism
    n 1: the phenomena associated with volcanic activity
  • cretinism
    n 1: severe hypothyroidism resulting in physical and mental stunting
  • daltonism
    n 1: dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red [syn: deuteranopia, Daltonism, green- blindness]
  • platonism
    n 1: (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names [syn: Platonism, realism]
  • satanism
    n 1: a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan) [syn: diabolism, demonism, Satanism]
  • actinism
    n 1: the property of radiation that enables it to produce photochemical effects
  • alienism
    n 1: an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness 2: the quality of being alien [syn: alienage, alienism]
  • byzantinism
    n 1: the doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters [syn: Erastianism, Byzantinism, Caesaropapism]
  • germanism
    n 1: a custom that is peculiar to Germany or its citizens
  • hellenism
    n 1: the principles and ideals associated with classical Greek civilization
  • leninism
    n 1: the political and economic theories of Lenin which provided the guiding doctrine of the Soviet Union; the modification of Marxism by Lenin stressed that imperialism is the highest form of capitalism (which shifts the struggle from developed to underdeveloped countries) [syn: Leninism, Marxism-Leninism]
  • melanism
    n 1: a condition characterized by abnormal deposits of melanin (especially in the skin) [syn: melanosis, melanism]
  • onanism
    n 1: manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure [syn: masturbation, onanism] 2: a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation [syn: coitus interruptus, withdrawal method, withdrawal, pulling out, onanism]
  • puritanism
    n 1: the beliefs and practices characteristic of Puritans (most of whom were Calvinists who wished to purify the Church of England of its Catholic aspects) 2: strictness and austerity in conduct and religion
  • romanism
    n 1: the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome [syn: Romanism, Roman Catholicism, papism]
  • saturnism
    n 1: toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system [syn: lead poisoning, plumbism, saturnism]
  • stalinism
    n 1: a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) [syn: dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny]
  • arianism
    n 1: heretical doctrine taught by Arius that asserted the radical primacy of the Father over the Son [ant: Athanasianism]
  • antidisestablishmentarianism
  • peronism
  • prochronism
  • pyrrhonism
  • rabbinism