Words ending with alism

Ruralism means: The quality or state of being rural; ruralness.

Ruralism means: A rural idiom or expression.

Sacerdotalism means: The system, style, spirit, or character, of a priesthood, or sacerdotal order; devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order.

Sacramentalism means: The doctrine and use of sacraments; attachment of excessive importance to sacraments.

Scripturalism means: The quality or state of being scriptural; literal adherence to the Scriptures.

Sectionalism means: A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.

Sensationalism means: The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism.

Sensationalism means: The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel.

Sensualism means: The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.

Sensualism means: The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism.

Zoographer means: One who describes animals, their forms and habits.

Zoogloea means: A colony or mass of bacteria imbedded in a viscous gelatinous substance. The zoogloea is characteristic of a transitory stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in the course of their evolution. Also used adjectively.

Zoogeographical means: Of or pertaining to zoography.

Zoogeography means: The study or description of the geographical distribution of animals.

Zoogony means: The doctrine of the formation of living beings.

Zoogeny means: Alt. of Zoogony

Zoogenic means: Of or pertaining to zoogeny, animal production.

Zoogamy means: The sexual reproduction of animals.

Zoogamous means: Of or pertaining zoogamy.

Zooerythrine means: A peculiar organic red coloring matter found in the feathers of various birds.