| sensationalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience | Synonyms: empiricism, empiricist philosophy |
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| (noun) (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good | Synonyms: sensualism |
| (noun) the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes | Synonyms: luridness |
| (noun) subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes | - |
| sensualism | (noun) (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good | Synonyms: sensationalism |
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| (noun) desire for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: sensuality, sensualness |
| sentimentalism | (noun) a predilection for sentimentality | - |
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| (noun) the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form | - |
| separationism | (noun) advocacy of a policy of strict separation of church and state | Synonyms: separatism |
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| separatism | (noun) advocacy of a policy of strict separation of church and state | Synonyms: separationism |
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| (noun) a disposition toward schism and secession from a larger group; the principles and practices of separatists | - |
| (noun) a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups | Synonyms: segregation |
| serialism | (noun) 20th century music that uses a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition | Synonyms: serial music |
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| sermonism | (noun) the conceptualism of Abelard. | - |
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| servomechanism | (noun) control system that converts a small mechanical motion into one requiring much greater power; may include a negative feedback system | Synonyms: servo, servosystem |
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| sexism | (noun) discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of the opposite sex | - |
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| shamanism | (noun) an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans | Synonyms: Asian shamanism |
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| (noun) any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism (especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes) | - |
| simplism | (noun) an act of excessive simplification; the act of making something seem simpler than it really is | Synonyms: oversimplification |
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| (noun) an explanation that simplifies too far to the point of misrepresentation | Synonyms: oversimplification |
| sinapism | (noun) a plaster containing powdered black mustard; applied to the skin as a counterirritant or rubefacient | Synonyms: mustard plaster |
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| skepticism | (noun) doubt about the truth of something | Synonyms: disbelief, incredulity, mental rejection, scepticism |
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| (noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge | Synonyms: agnosticism, scepticism |
| snobbism | (noun) the trait of condescending to those of lower social status | Synonyms: snobbery, snobbishness |
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| socialism | (noun) a political theory advocating state ownership of industry | - |
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| (noun) an economic system based on state ownership of capital | Synonyms: socialist economy |
| solecism | (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, slip |
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| solipsism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist | - |
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| somnambulism | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulation, noctambulism, sleepwalking, somnambulation |
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| somniloquism | (noun) uttering speech while asleep | Synonyms: sleep talking, somniloquy |
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| sophism | (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophistication, sophistry |
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| southernism | (noun) an attitude characteristic of Southerners (especially in the US) | - |
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| (noun) a locution or pronunciation peculiar to the southern United States | - |
| sovietism | (noun) Soviet communism | Synonyms: Bolshevism, collectivism |
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| spasm | (noun) (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel) | - |
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| (noun) a painful and involuntary muscular contraction | Synonyms: cramp, muscle spasm |
| spatialism | (noun) an art movement founded by Italian artist Lucio Fontana in Milan in 1947 in which he intended to synthesize colour, sound, space, movement, and time into a new type of art. | - |
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| specialism | (noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career | Synonyms: specialisation, speciality, specialization, specialty |
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| (noun) the concentration of your efforts on a particular field of study or occupation | - |
| spiritism | (noun) concern with things of the spirit | Synonyms: otherworldliness, spiritualism, spirituality |
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| spiritualism | (noun) concern with things of the spirit | Synonyms: otherworldliness, spiritism, spirituality |
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| (noun) the belief that the spirits of dead people can communicate with people who are still alive (especially via a medium) | - |
| (noun) (theology) any doctrine that asserts the separate existence of God | - |
| spoonerism | (noun) transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words | - |
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| sticklerism | (noun) The behaviour of a stickler; inflexible adherence to rules. | - |
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| stigmatism | (noun) normal eyesight | - |
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| (noun) (optics) condition of an optical system (as a lens) in which light rays from a single point converge in a single focal point | - |
| (noun) the condition of having or being marked by stigmata | - |
| stoicism | (noun) an indifference to pleasure or pain | Synonyms: stolidity, stolidness |
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| structuralism | (noun) linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse | Synonyms: structural linguistics |
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| (noun) an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena | Synonyms: structural anthropology |
| (noun) a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals | Synonyms: structural sociology |
| subjectivism | (noun) the quality of being subjective | - |
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| (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge and value are dependent on and limited by your subjective experience | - |
| suffragism | (noun) the belief that the right to vote should be extended (as to women) | - |
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| supernaturalism | (noun) the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces | Synonyms: supernaturalness |
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| (noun) a belief in forces beyond ordinary human understanding | - |
| superpatriotism | (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: chauvinism, jingoism, ultranationalism |
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| supremacism | (noun) the belief that some particular group or race is superior to all others | - |
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| suprematism | (noun) a geometric abstractionist movement originated by Kazimir Malevich in Russia that influenced constructivism | - |
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| surrealism | (noun) a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams | - |
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| syllogism | (noun) deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises | - |
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| symbolism | (noun) the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning | Synonyms: symbolisation, symbolization |
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| (noun) a system of symbols and symbolic representations | - |
| (noun) an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images | - |
| synchronism | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity, synchronisation, synchronization, synchronizing, synchrony |
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| syncretism | (noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections) | - |
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| (noun) the union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief (especially in religion or philosophy) | - |
| syndactylism | (noun) birth defect in which there is partial or total webbing connecting two or more fingers or toes | Synonyms: syndactyly |
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| syndicalism | (noun) a radical political movement that advocates bringing industry and government under the control of labor unions | - |
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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 |
| synthetism | (noun) a genre of French painting characterized by bright flat shapes and symbolic treatments of abstract ideas | - |
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| systematism | (noun) the habitual practice of systematization and classification | - |
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| tarantism | (noun) a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider | - |
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| teetotalism | (noun) abstaining from alcohol | Synonyms: teetotaling |
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| televangelism | (noun) evangelism at a distance by the use of television | - |
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| terrorism | (noun) the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear | Synonyms: act of terrorism, terrorist act |
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| theanthropism | (noun) (theology) the doctrine that Jesus was a union of the human and the divine | - |
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| (noun) the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits | Synonyms: anthropomorphism |
| theism | (noun) the doctrine or belief in the existence of a God or gods | - |
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| theocentrism | (noun) the belief that God is the central aspect to our existence. | - |
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| theosophism | (noun) belief in theosophy | - |
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| theoterrorism | (noun) terrorism for a religious purpose | - |
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| thermotropism | (noun) an orienting response to warmth | - |
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| thromboembolism | (noun) occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus that has broken away from a thrombus | - |
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| totalism | (noun) an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government. | Synonyms: absolutism, totalitarianism |
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| totalitarianism | (noun) an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government. | Synonyms: absolutism, totalism |
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| (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, tyranny |
| totemism | (noun) belief in the kinship of a group of people with a common totem | - |
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| tourism | (noun) the business of providing services to tourists | Synonyms: touristry |
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| traditionalism | (noun) adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters) | - |
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| (noun) strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings | Synonyms: traditionality |
| (noun) the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions | - |
| transcendentalism | (noun) any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material | Synonyms: transcendental philosophy |
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| transsexualism | (noun) condition in which a person identifies with a gender different from his or her physical gender | - |
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| transvestism | (noun) the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross dressing, transvestitism |
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| transvestitism | (noun) the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross dressing, transvestism |
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| tribadism | (noun) a form of lesbianism that simulates heterosexual intercourse | - |
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| tribalism | (noun) the beliefs of a tribal society | - |
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| (noun) the state of living together in tribes | - |
| trichroism | (noun) pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits three different colors when viewed from three different directions | - |
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| tritheism | (noun) (Christianity) the heretical belief that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are three separate gods | - |
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| trophotropism | (noun) an orienting response to food | - |
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| tropism | (noun) an involuntary orienting response; positive or negative reaction to a stimulus source | - |
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| truism | (noun) an obvious truth | - |
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| ultramontanism | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) the policy that the absolute authority of the church should be vested in the pope | - |
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| ultranationalism | (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: chauvinism, jingoism, superpatriotism |
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| unilateralism | (noun) the doctrine that nations should conduct their foreign affairs individualistically without the advice or involvement of other nations | - |
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| unionism | (noun) the system or principles and theory of labor unions | Synonyms: trade unionism |
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| unitarism | (noun) Politics which favors the process of uniting a political entity which consists of smaller regions, either by cancelling the regions completely or by transferring their power to the central government. | - |
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| universalism | (noun) the theological doctrine that all people will eventually be saved | - |
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| unrealism | (noun) a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples | Synonyms: abstractionism |
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| utilitarianism | (noun) doctrine that the useful is the good; especially as elaborated by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill; the aim was said to be the greatest happiness for the greatest number | - |
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| valetudinarianism | (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity |
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| vampirism | (noun) the actions or practices of a vampire | - |
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| (noun) belief in the existence of vampires | - |
| vandalism | (noun) willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others | Synonyms: hooliganism, malicious mischief |
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| vegetarianism | (noun) a diet excluding all meat and fish | - |
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| ventriloquism | (noun) the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy) | Synonyms: ventriloquy |
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| verbalism | (noun) the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions | Synonyms: expression, verbal expression |
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| (noun) overabundance of words | Synonyms: verbiage |
| vigilantism | (noun) the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws | - |
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| virilism | (noun) the development of male secondary sexual characteristics in a female (or prematurely in a young boy) | - |
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| vitalism | (noun) (philosophy) a doctrine that life is a vital principle distinct from physics and chemistry | - |
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| vocalism | (noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: phonation, vocalisation, vocalization, voice, vox |
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| (noun) the system of vowels used in a particular language | Synonyms: vowel system |
| volcanism | (noun) the phenomena associated with volcanic activity | - |
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| voodooism | (noun) a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | Synonyms: hoodooism, vodoun, voodoo |
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| voyeurism | (noun) a perversion in which a person receives sexual gratification from seeing the genitalia of others or witnessing others' sexual behavior | - |
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| vulgarism | (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarity |
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| (noun) an offensive or indecent word or phrase | Synonyms: dirty word, filth, obscenity, smut |
| wellerism | (noun) a comparison comprising a well-known quotation followed by a facetious sequel | - |
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| witticism | (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, humour, wit, wittiness |
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| workaholism | (noun) compulsiveness about working | - |
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