Words that rhyme with unbosom

  • animalism
    n 1: the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature 2: preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites [syn: animalism, physicality]
  • bosom
    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]
  • botulism
    n 1: food poisoning from ingesting botulin; not infectious; affects the CNS; can be fatal if not treated promptly
  • cabalism
    n 1: the doctrines of the Kabbalah [syn: Kabbalism, Cabalism] 2: adherence to some extreme traditional theological concept or interpretation [syn: kabbalism, cabalism]
  • cannibalism
    n 1: the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
  • cataclysm
    n 1: a sudden violent change in the earth's surface [syn: catastrophe, cataclysm] 2: an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" [syn: calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm]
  • centralism
    n 1: the political policy of concentrating power in a central organization
  • chasm
    n 1: a deep opening in the earth's surface
  • classicalism
    n 1: a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms; "classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans" [syn: classicism, classicalism] [ant: Romantic Movement, Romanticism]
  • commercialism
    n 1: transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) [syn: commerce, commercialism, mercantilism]
  • communalism
    n 1: the practice of communal living and common ownership 2: loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole
  • conventionalism
    n 1: orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional [syn: conventionality, convention, conventionalism] [ant: unconventionality]
  • cytoplasm
    n 1: the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism [syn: cytoplasm, cytol]
  • dualism
    n 1: the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil
  • somnambulism
    n 1: walking by a person who is asleep [syn: sleepwalking, somnambulism, somnambulation, noctambulism, noctambulation]
  • spasm
    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)
  • structuralism
    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
    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
    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
  • syndicalism
    n 1: a radical political movement that advocates bringing industry and government under the control of labor unions
  • teetotalism
    n 1: abstaining from alcohol [syn: teetotaling, teetotalism]
  • traditionalism
    n 1: strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings [syn: traditionalism, traditionality] 2: adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters) 3: the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions
  • tribalism
    n 1: the state of living together in tribes 2: the beliefs of a tribal society
  • universalism
    n 1: the theological doctrine that all people will eventually be saved
  • plasm
    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]
  • embosom
  • disbosom
  • imbosom
  • disembosom

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