Words that rhyme with colonialism

  • alcoholism
    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]
  • capitalism
    n 1: an economic system based on private ownership of capital [syn: capitalism, capitalist economy] [ant: socialism, socialist economy]
  • colloquialism
    n 1: a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
  • imperialism
    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
  • materialism
    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]
  • mercantilism
    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]
  • mutualism
    n 1: the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other [syn: symbiosis, mutualism]
  • nihilism
    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
  • parochialism
    n 1: a limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish
  • racism
    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]
  • ritualism
    n 1: the study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies 2: exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship
  • gargoylism
    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]
  • parallelism
    n 1: similarity by virtue of corresponding [syn: parallelism, correspondence]
  • sensualism
    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]
  • serialism
    n 1: 20th century music that uses a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition [syn: serialism, serial music]
  • sciolism
    n 1: pretentious superficiality of knowledge
  • ceremonialism
  • factualism
  • gradualism
  • territorialism
  • baalism
  • labialism
  • textualism
  • trinomialism

See also colonialism definition