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​​​​​​Abolitionism

Absolutism

Absurdism

Accelerationism

Activism

Adventism

Agathism

Ageism

Agnosticism

Albinism

Alcoholism

Alphabetism

Alpinism

Altruism

Americanism; anti-Americanism

Amillennialism or amillenarism

Amoralism

Anachronism

Analfabetism (illiteracy)

Anarchism

Aniconism

Animalism

Animism

Annihilism

Annihilationism

Antagonism

Anthropocentrism

Aphorism

Archivism

Aristocratism

Aristotelianism

Arsonism

Asterism

Atheism

Atomism

Atticism

Attitudinarianism

Augustinism

Authoritarianism

Autism

Baptism

Barbarism

Bastardism

Behaviorism or behaviourism

Benthamism

Bibelism

Bipedalism

Blockheadism

Bolshevism

Botulism

Briticism; Britishism

Brutalism

Brutism

Buddhism; Taejang Buddhism; Zen Buddhism; Mahayana Buddhism

Bullionism

Calvinism

Canadianism

Cannibalism

Capitalism

Casteism

Casualism

Catabolism

Catechism

Catharism

Catholicism

Chaosism

Chauvinism

Christianism

Churchism

Cicisbeism

Civicism

Classicism

Cliquism

Collectivism

Colonialism

Communism

Comtism

Concretism

Conformism

Confucianism

Conservatism; Neoconservativism

Consumerism

Contortionism

Conversationism; also Conversationalism 

Copernicanism; Copernican heliocentrism

Cosmopolitism

Creationism

Criticism

Cubism

Cultism

Culturalism; Multiculturalism

Curialism

Cynicism

Dadaism

Darwinism; Darwinianism; Municipal Darwinism; Social Darwinism

Defeatism

Demonianism

Denominationalism

Desperatism

Despotism

Determinism

Deviationism

Doctrinarianism

Dogmatism

Donnism

Doughfaceism

Dualism; Absolute dualism; Mitigated dualism (Catharism); Nondualism; Radical dualism

Dwarfism

Dynamism

Economism

Ecumenicalism

Ecumenicism

Ecumenism

Egalitarianism

Egocentrism

Egoism

Egotism

Elitism

Embolism (embolismic month, metonic cycle, lunisolar calendar)

Empiricism

Entrepreneurism

Environmentalism

Epicureanism

Epilogism

Equalitarianism

Eroticism

Escapism

Esoterism or esotericism

Essentialism

Ethnicism

Ethnocentrism

Euphemism

Euphuism

Eurasianism

Evangelism

Exceptionalism

Exclusionism

Exclusivism

Existentialism

Exorcism

Exoterism

Expansionism

Experientialism

Extremism

Factionalism

Falangism

Falsism

Familism

Fanaticism

Fascism

Fatalism

Fattism

Favoritism

Feminism

Fesbianism (slang, a lesbian professor)

Fetishism

Feudalism

Folklorism

Formalism

Functionalism; Dysfunctionalism

Fundamentalism

Futurism

Galvanism

Gigantism

Globalism vs. Globalisation (also spelled globalization)

Gnosticism

Gutturalism

Hedonism

Heliocentrism

Herbalism (phytotherapy)

Hereditarianism

Hermetism

Heroism

Hinduism

Hobbyism (amateur #level)

Holism

Homosexualism

Humanism; Humanitarianism

Humoralism

Hypnotism

Hypopituitarism

Iconism

Idealism

Ignorantism

Illeism

Illuminism

Immoralism

Imperialism

Impressionism

Incorporealism

Indeterminism

Individualism

Industrialism

Initialism

Inkhornism

Insularism

Internationalism; Liberal internationalism

Intuitionalism

Intuitivism

Ipsedixitism

Irrationalism

Irredentism

Irridentism

Islamism; Shia Islamism; Sunni Islamism

Isolationism (political or religious isolationists)

Jansenism

Jihadism

Jingoism (militarism, nationalism, patriotism, aggressive foreign politics towards nations or groups)

John Bullism

Journalism

Judaism

Kantianism; Neo-Kantianism

Klansmanism (Ku Klux Klan)

Laconicism

Latitudinarianism

Leftism

Legalism (in order for a ruler to maintain order in society, people must obey a set of strict laws and those in authority)

Leninism; Market-Leninism

Lesbianism (also called sapphism, slang fesbianism, bias)

Levelism

Liberalism

Libertinism

Lingism

Literalism

Lobbyism

Lollardism

Machiavellianism

Magianism

Magnetism

Malebranchism

Mandaeism

Manichaeism

Mannerism (idiosyncrasy)

Maoism

Marianism

Martinetism

Marxism; Marxism-Leninism

Masochism; sadomasochism

Materialism

Maternalism

Mechanism

Melanism

Mennonitism

Mesmerism

Metabolism

Metamorphism

Methodism (methodist movement)

Metricism

Militarism; paramilitarism

Millenarianism

Millennialism

Millerism

Minimalism

Minimifidianism

Misogynism (misogyny, the hatred of women)

Mithridatism

Modernism

Monarchism

Monasticism

Monism

Monopolism (patents as government granted monopolies)

Monotheism

Moravianism

Mormonism

Motorism

Mutism

Mysticism

Naivisme (Danish, in English naïve art, usually defined as visual art, sometimes called primitivism)

Narcissism

Nationalism; Ethnic nationalism; National Socialism; State nationalism; Supernationalism

Nativism

Naturism; Nudism

Navalism

Nazism

Necessarianism

Negativism

Neoclassicism

Neologism (a newly coined word or expression. The word itself is an example of it)

Nepotism

Neuroticism

Newtonianism (Isaac Newton)

Nihilism (the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless)

Nomism

Non-interventionism

Nonjurorism

Nontheism

Obscurantism

Obsoletism

Occultism

Omnism

Onanism

Opportunism

Optimism

Organism; microorganism; super organism

Orphism

Ostracism

-ism suffixes P-Z

Pacifism

Paganism

Pan-Africanism

Pan-Americanism

Pan-Arabism

Pan-Germanism

Pan-Iranism

Pan-nationalism

Pan-Slavism

Pan-Turkism

Pantheism

Parabolism

Parliamentarism

Parsiism

Partyism

Passivism

Pastoralism

Paternalism

Patriotism

Pentecostalism (a protestant charismatic christian movement that emphasizes direct personal experience of God through baptism)

Perennialism (perennialists believe that the focus of education should be the ideas that have lasted over centuries.)

Perfectionism

Peripateticism

Pessimism

Pestalozzianism

Philanthropism

Physicalism

Plagiarism

Platonism; Neoplatonism (Plotin, latin: Plotinus)

Plebeianism

Pluralism

Politicalism

Polyglotism

Polytheism

Popularism

Populism

Positivism

Postmillennialism

Pragmatism

Predestinarianism

Preexistentism

Premillennialism

Preraphaelism

Primitivism (see Danish Naivisme above), Christian primitivism

Prism

Professionalism

Protagonism

Protestantism

Provincialism

Psittacism

Psychism

Puritanism

Puseyism

Putinism

Pyrrhonism

Pythagoreanism

Quinism; Quininism

Racism; Racialism

Radicalism

Raëlism (or Raëlianism)

Ranterism

Raphaelism

Rapism

Rastafarianism

Rationalism

Realism; Anti-realism; Social realism

Receptionism

Reductionism

Reincarnationism

Relativism

Restitutionism

Restorationism

Revisionism

Rheumatism

Ritualism

Romanticism

Royalism

Sadduceeism

Sadism; sadomasochism

Salafism

Sandemanianism

Sapphism (also called Lesbianism, slang fesbianism)

Satanism

Savoinism

Scepticism; Skepticism

Schism (a split or division B/#tween strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by %differences% in opinion or belief. Example: The widening schism B/#tween church leaders and politicians.)

Scripturalism

Secessionism

Sectarianism

Secularism

Seisism; microseisism (seismology)

Selfism

Semitism; Anti-Semitism

Sensism

Separatism

Sexism; Sexualism; Heterosexism; Pansexualism

Shaivism

Shaktism

Shamanism

Singularitarianism

Socialism; Antisocialism; National Socialism 

Socratism

Sodomism

Solecism

Solifidianism

Solipsism

Sophism

Spermatism

Spiritualism; Spiritism

Stalinism

Stoicism

Subliminalism (urban)

Sufism

Supremacism

Symbolism; Jungian symbolism; Masonic symbolism

Synchronism

Syncretism (the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought)

Syriacism

Syrianism

Taoism

Tengrism

Terrorism; Antiterrorism; Bioterrorism; Counterterrorism; Domestic terrorism

Thomism (philosophical and theological school which arose as a legacy of the work and thought of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274))

Titoism

Totalism; Totalitarianism (totalitarian Pascal, etc.)

Tourism; Ecotourism

Tractarianism

Traditionalism

Transcendentalism

Transsexualism

Transvestism

Tribalism

Trinitarianism 

Tripolism (Urban, Band Name)

Tsarism

Ultracrepidarianism

Uniformism

Unilateralism

Universalism; Christian universalism

Utilitarianism

Utopianism

Vaishnavism

Vampirism

Vandalism

Veganism

Vegetarianism

Vendatism

Ventriloquism

Vernacularism

Vigilantism (law enforcement undertaken without legal authority by a self-appointed group of people)

Volcanism

Wahhabism

Wayism (urban, #Lv11 Existential #path, Butterfly #path, Mountain #path)

Weism

Westernism

Whedonism (urban, To kill off the most lovable b-list characters in your movies / TV shows)

Witticism

Wokeism (the behaviour and attitudes of people who are sensitive to social and political injustice)

Workaholism

Yazidism

Zealotism

Zionism

Zoroastrianism

Zurvanism (a fatalistic religious movement of Zoroastrianism. Zurvan, the god of infinite time and space and who was "one" and "A/lone. Also, a Zurvanian infinity loop ∞)

-ism versus approach

Albinism                 vs. Melanism

A/Gnosticism        vs. Gnosticism

Antagonism           vs. Protagonism

Buddhism               vs. Hinduism

Capitalism               vs. Communism (Market-Leninism)

Catholicism             vs. Protestantism

Collectivism            vs. Individualism

Determinism           vs. Indeterminism

Dualism                    vs. Monism

Esoterism                 vs. Exoterism

Fanaticism               vs. Fundamentalism

Globalism                 vs. Globalization

Hermetism               vs. Gnosticism

Marianism                 vs. Mormonism

Masochism               vs. Sadism

Materialism               vs. Minimalism (Existentialism)

Optimism vs. Pessimism

Positivism vs. Negativism

​Sunni Islamism         vs. Shia Islamism

Tourism                      vs. Terrorism

Veganism                   vs. Vegetarianism

-logy suffixes

​​Acarology

Aerology (the study of the atmosphere, especially away from ground #level)

Aetiology (Etiology)

Agrology

Algology (The study of algae)

Amphibology

Analogy

Andrology (Branch of physiology)

Anemology

Anesthesiology

Angelology; Gnostic angelology (Pseudo-Dionysius)

Angiology

Anthology

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology; Linguistic anthropology; Social anthropology; Sociocultural anthropology

Antilogy

Apiology

(Apology)

Arachnology (spiders)

Archeology; Archaeology

Archology

Areology (Ares, Aries, the study of the planet Mars)

Astrology

Audiology

Autecology

Axiology

Bacteriology

Balneology

Bibliology

Biology; Aerobiology; Astrobiology; Chronobiology; Cryobiology; Exobiology; Hydrobiology; Marine Biology; Microbiology; Neurobiology; Paleobiology; Pathobiology; Photobiology; Psychobiology; Radiobiology; Sociobiology; Xenobiology

Bromatology

Bryology (The study of mosses and liverworts)

Cardiology

Cariology

Carpology

Cetology (Branch of zoology)

Chronology; Geochronology

Climatology; Paleoclimatology

Codicology

Cohomology

Companology

Conchology

Coprology (Another term for scatology)

Cosmetology

Cosmology

Craniology

Criminology

Cryology

Cryptology

Cytology (The branch of biology concerned with the structure and function of plant and animal cells)

Dactylology

Datalogi (Danish, computer science)

Demonology

Dendrology (The scientific study of trees)

Deontology

Dermatology

Dialectology

Doxology

Ecclesiology

Ecology (Oecology); Paleoecology; Radioecology

Egyptology

Electrology

Embryology

Endocrinology (Branch of physiology)

Enology (The study of wines)

Entomology

Enzymology

Epidemiology

Epiphytology

Epistemology

Epizootiology

Escapology

Eschatology (the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.); Christian eschatology

Ethnology

Ethology

Etiology (Aetiology)

Etymology (The study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history.)

Eulogy

Fetology

Futurology

Garbology

Gemology (or Gemmology, gemstones, branch of mineralogy)

Genealogy

Geology; Photogeology

Gerontology

Glaciology

Graphology

Gynecology (Gynaecology)

Hagiology

Haplology

Helminthology

Hematology (The study of the physiology of the blood)

Herbology

Herpetology (the branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians)

Hierology

Histology

Homology

Horology (The study and measurement of time)

Hydrology; Geohydrology

Hymnology

Hypnology

Ichnology

Ichthyology (Branch of zoology)

Iconology

Ideology; Idealogy

Immunology

Iridology

Karyology

Kinesiology (Body kinetic intelligence)

Kremlinology

Laryngology

Lepidopterology

Lexicology

Lichenology

Limnology

Lithology

Liturgiology

Logy (denoting a subject of study or interest)

Lycanthropology (werewolf)

Malacology (branch of zoology)

Malariology

Mammalogy (branch of zoology)

Martyrology

Menology (calendar of the Greek orthodox church)

Meteorology (phenomenal); Biometeorology; Exo-meteorology

Methodology

Metrology

Mineralogy

Misology

Missiology

Mixology (Cocktail mixer)

Monology

Morphology; Micromorphology; Geomorphology

Museology

Musicology; Ethnomusicology

Mycology (the scientific study of fungi)

Myology (the study of the structure, arrangement, and action of muscles)

Myrmecology (branch of entomology that deals with ants)

Mythology

Narratology

Necrology

Nematology

Neology

Nephology

Nephrology

Neonatology

Neurology

Nomology

Nosology (Branch of medical science)

Nostology

Numerology (The branch of knowledge that deals with the occult significance of numbers)

Oceanology (Another term for oceanography)

Odontology (The scientific study of the structure and diseases of teeth)

Oenology; Oinology

-Ology (A subject of study; a branch of knowledge)

Oncology

Onomatology

Ontology (Branch of metaphysics)

Oology (The study or collecting of birds' eggs)

Ophiology (Branch of zoology)

Ophthalmology

Organology

Orismology

Ornithology

Orology

Osteology

Otolaryngology

Otology

Paleology

Paleontology

Palynology

Papyrology

Parasitology

Pathology; Pathophysiology (Physiopathology);

Psychopathology; Immunopathology; Neuropathology;

Pedology (Another term for soil science)

Penology

Phytopathology; Paleopathology

Periodontology

Petrology

Pharmacology

Phenology

Phenomenology

Philology

Phlebology

Phonology

Phraseology

Phrenology

Phycology

Physiology; Ecophysiology; Neurophysiology; Histophysiology

Phytology

Planetology

Pneumatology

Poenology

Politology (rare, the branch of social science concerned with theory, description, analysis and prediction of political behavior, political systems and politics broadly-construed.)

Pomology (the science of growing fruit)

Posology (the part of medicine concerned with dosage)

Praxeology

Primatology (branch of zoology)

Proctology (the branch of medicine concerned with the anus and rectum)

Psephology

Psychology; Freudian psychology; Jungian psychology; Metapsychology; Neuropsychology; Parapsychology (Phenomenal); Pop psychology

Pteridology

Pulmonology

Pyrology

Radiology (Roentgenology)

Reflexology (Also known as [Zone Therapy])

Rheology

Rheumatology

Rhinology

Runology (the study of runes and runic writings)

Salmonology

Sarcology

Scatology

Scientology (And Dianetics)

Sedimentology

Seismology

Selenology

Semasiology (Branch of linguistics)

Semeiology

Semiology (Another term for semiotics)

Serology

Sexology

Sinology (The study of Chinese language, history, customs, and politics)

Sitology

Sociology; Phytosociology

Somatology

Soteriology (Branch of theology)

Speleology

Stereology

Symbology

Symptomatology

Synecology

Tautology

Technology; Nanotechnology; Antitechnology; Cytotechnology; Biotechnology

Teleology (the explanation of phenomena in terms of the purpose they serve rather than of the cause by which they arise.)

Teratology

Terminology (Deterministic usage of numbers, symbols, special characters and languages)

Tetralogy (Quadrilogy)

Thanatology

Theology

Tocology

Tokology

Topology

Toxicology

Tribology

Trichology

Trilogy

Tropology

Typology

Ufology (The study of UFOs)

Uranology

Urbanology

Urology

Venology

Vexillology (The study of [flags])

Victimology (The study of the victims of crime and the psychological effects on them of their experience)

Virology

Vulcanology (Obsolete %variant% of Volcanology)

Zoology; Cryptozoology; Paleozoology; Protozoology

Zymology

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