-ISM


Meaning of -ISM in English

A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism.

Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary.      Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster.