Words that rhyme with nativism

  • activism
    n 1: a policy of taking direct and militant action to achieve a political or social goal
  • atavism
    n 1: a reappearance of an earlier characteristic [syn: atavism, reversion, throwback]
  • capitalism
    n 1: an economic system based on private ownership of capital [syn: capitalism, capitalist economy] [ant: socialism, socialist economy]
  • collectivism
    n 1: Soviet communism [syn: Bolshevism, collectivism, sovietism] 2: a political theory that the people should own the means of production
  • constructivism
    n 1: an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects
  • descriptivism
    n 1: (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements have a truth value 2: (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics
  • negativism
    n 1: characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands [syn: negativity, negativeness, negativism] [ant: positiveness, positivism, positivity]
  • positivism
    n 1: the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) [syn: positivism, logical positivism] 2: a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness [syn: positivity, positiveness, positivism] [ant: negativeness, negativism, negativity]
  • primitivism
    n 1: a wild or unrefined state [syn: crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness] 2: a genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children
  • 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]
  • recidivism
    n 1: habitual relapse into crime
  • relativism
    n 1: (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that all criteria of judgment are relative to the individuals and situations involved
  • subjectivism
    n 1: (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge and value are dependent on and limited by your subjective experience 2: the quality of being subjective
  • bolshevism
    n 1: Soviet communism [syn: Bolshevism, collectivism, sovietism]
  • intuitivism
  • objectivism

See also nativism definition