Words that rhyme with baalism

n 1: habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms [syn: alcoholism, alcohol addiction, inebriation, drunkenness] 2: an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess [syn: dipsomania, alcoholism, potomania]

n 1: a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

n 1: exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country

n 1: a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries 2: a political orientation that advocates imperial interests 3: any instance of aggressive extension of authority

n 1: a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters [syn: materialism, philistinism] 2: (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality [syn: materialism, physicalism]

n 1: an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests [syn: mercantilism, mercantile system] 2: transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) [syn: commerce, commercialism, mercantilism]

n 1: the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other [syn: symbiosis, mutualism]

n 1: a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake 2: the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal [syn: nihilistic delusion, nihilism] 3: complete denial of all established authority and institutions

n 1: a limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish

n 1: the study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies 2: exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship

n 1: hereditary disease (autosomal recessive) consisting of an error is mucopolysaccharide metabolism; characterized by severe abnormalities in development of skeletal cartilage and bone and mental retardation [syn: Hurler's syndrome, Hurler's disease, gargoylism, dysostosis multiplex, lipochondrodystrophy]

n 1: similarity by virtue of corresponding [syn: parallelism, correspondence]

n 1: desire for sensual pleasures [syn: sensuality, sensualness, sensualism] 2: (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good [syn: sensualism, sensationalism]

n 1: 20th century music that uses a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition [syn: serialism, serial music]

n 1: pretentious superficiality of knowledge