Words that rhyme with pedobaptism

n 1: a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth; "most churches baptize infants but some insist on adult baptism"

n 1: the act of inducing hypnosis [syn: hypnotism, mesmerism, suggestion]

n 1: the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws

n 1: the ideology of the political left; belief in or support of the tenets of the political left

n 1: hallucinatory perception of colored lights 2: abnormal pigmentation

n 1: poisoning by ingestion of ergot-infected grain products; characterized by thirst and diarrhea and nausea and cramping and vomiting and abnormal cardiac rhythms; in severe cases it can cause seizures and gangrene of the limbs

n 1: a state of anticipation of sexuality [syn: eroticism, erotism] 2: the arousal of feelings of sexual desire [syn: amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness, amativeness]

n 1: excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland [syn: giantism, gigantism, overgrowth] 2: excessive largeness of stature [syn: gigantism, giantism]

n 1: excessive hairiness [syn: hirsuteness, hirsutism]

n 1: a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God

n 1: quixotic (romantic and impractical) behavior [syn: knight errantry, quixotism]

n 1: a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider

n 1: the visual property of being without chromatic color [syn: colorlessness, colourlessness, achromatism, achromaticity] [ant: color, coloring, colour, colouring]

n 1: an inclination to favor some person or group [syn: favoritism, favouritism] 2: unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice [syn: discrimination, favoritism, favouritism]

n 1: the practice of proselytizing 2: the state of being a proselyte; spiritual rebirth resulting from the zeal of crusading advocacy of the gospel

n 1: a geometric abstractionist movement originated by Kazimir Malevich in Russia that influenced constructivism

n 1: the habitual practice of systematization and classification

n 1: a Protestant movement in the 16th century that believed in the primacy of the Bible, baptised only believers, not infants, and believed in complete separation of church and state

n 1: the principles of a body of 19th century English reformers who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people

n 1: the condition of being unable or unwilling to speak; "her muteness was a consequence of her deafness" [syn: mutism, muteness]