agism | (noun) discrimination on the basis of a person's age | Synonyms: ageism |
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anthropologism | (noun) a point of view in which human nature is exhaustively determined by the culture in which a person lives, leaving no room for human agency. | - |
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antilogism | (noun) an inconsistent triad of propositions in logic of which two are premises of a valid syllogism while the third is the contradictory of its conclusion. | - |
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biologism | (noun) use of biological principles in explaining human especially social behavior | - |
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dialogism | (noun) the use in a text of different tones or viewpoints, whose interaction or contradiction is important to the text's interpretation. | - |
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imagism | (noun) a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery | - |
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meningism | (noun) symptoms that mimic those of meningitis but without inflammation of the meninges | - |
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neologism | (noun) the act of inventing a word or phrase | Synonyms: coinage, neology |
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(noun) a newly invented word or phrase | Synonyms: coinage, neology |
paralogism | (noun) an unintentionally invalid argument | - |
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quislingism | (noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaboration, collaborationism |
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suffragism | (noun) the belief that the right to vote should be extended (as to women) | - |
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syllogism | (noun) deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises | - |
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synergism | (noun) the theological doctrine that salvation results from the interaction of human will and divine grace | - |
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(noun) the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects | Synonyms: synergy |