Words that rhyme with anabolism

• bosom 0
  n 1: the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept; "his bosom was bursting with the secret" 2: a person's breast or chest 3: cloth that covers the chest or breasts 4: a close affectionate and protective acceptance; "his willing embrace of new ideas"; "in the bosom of the family" [syn: embrace, bosom] 5: the locus of feelings and intuitions; "in your heart you know it is true"; "her story would melt your bosom" [syn: heart, bosom] 6: either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman [syn: breast, bosom, knocker, boob, tit, titty] v 1: hide in one's bosom; "She bosomed his letters" 2: squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness; "Hug me, please"; "They embraced"; "He hugged her close to him" [syn: embrace, hug, bosom, squeeze]
• cannibalism 0
  n 1: the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
• capitalism 0
  n 1: an economic system based on private ownership of capital [syn: capitalism, capitalist economy] [ant: socialism, socialist economy]
• chasm 0
  n 1: a deep opening in the earth's surface
• naturalism 0
  n 1: (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations 2: an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description [syn: naturalism, realism]
• neoplasm 0
  n 1: an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose [syn: tumor, tumour, neoplasm]
• orgasm 0
  n 1: the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse [syn: orgasm, climax, sexual climax, coming]
• paternalism 0
  n 1: the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good
• phantasm 0
  n 1: a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre] 2: something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight" [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow]
• photojournalism 0
  n 1: journalism that presents a story primarily through the use of pictures
• pleonasm 0
  n 1: using more words than necessary; "a tiny little child"
• pluralism 0
  n 1: a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated 2: the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements [ant: monism] 3: the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time
• pointillism 0
  n 1: a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France 2: a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France
• populism 0
  n 1: the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite
• racism 0
  n 1: the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races 2: discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race [syn: racism, racialism, racial discrimination]
• radicalism 0
  n 1: the political orientation of those who favor revolutionary change in government and society
• rationalism 0
  n 1: (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience 2: the theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth 3: the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct [syn: rationalism, freethinking]
• regionalism 0
  n 1: a feature (as a pronunciation or expression or custom) that is characteristic of a particular region 2: a foreign policy that defines the international interests of a country in terms of particular geographic areas 3: loyalty to the interests of a particular region
• revivalism 0
  n 1: an attempt to reawaken the evangelical faith
• sarcasm 0
  n 1: witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"-- Jonathan Swift [syn: sarcasm, irony, satire, caustic remark]
• sectionalism 0
  n 1: a partiality for some particular place [syn: sectionalism, provincialism, localism]
• sensationalism 0
  n 1: subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes 2: the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes; "the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation" [syn: sensationalism, luridness] 3: (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good [syn: sensualism, sensationalism] 4: (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience [syn: empiricism, empiricist philosophy, sensationalism]
• sentimentalism 0
  n 1: the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form 2: a predilection for sentimentality
• socialism 0
  n 1: a political theory advocating state ownership of industry 2: an economic system based on state ownership of capital [syn: socialism, socialist economy] [ant: capitalism, capitalist economy]
• somnambulism 0
  n 1: walking by a person who is asleep [syn: sleepwalking, somnambulism, somnambulation, noctambulism, noctambulation]
• spasm 0
  n 1: a painful and involuntary muscular contraction [syn: spasm, cramp, muscle spasm] 2: (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel)
• spiritualism 0
  n 1: (theology) any doctrine that asserts the separate existence of God 2: the belief that the spirits of dead people can communicate with people who are still alive (especially via a medium) 3: concern with things of the spirit [syn: spirituality, spiritualism, spiritism, otherworldliness] [ant: worldliness]
• structuralism 0
  n 1: linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse [syn: structuralism, structural linguistics] 2: an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena [syn: structuralism, structural anthropology] 3: a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals [syn: structuralism, structural sociology]
• supernaturalism 0
  n 1: a belief in forces beyond ordinary human understanding 2: the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces [syn: supernaturalism, supernaturalness]
• symbolism 0
  n 1: a system of symbols and symbolic representations 2: the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning [syn: symbolism, symbolization, symbolisation] 3: an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images
• plasm 0
  n 1: the protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes [syn: germ plasm, plasm] 2: the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended [syn: plasma, plasm, blood plasma]
• sarcoplasm 0
  n 1: the cytoplasm of a striated muscle fiber

See also anabolism definition and anabolism synonyms