C18: from French civisme, from Latin cīvis citizen
civism in American English
(ˈsɪvɪzəm)
noun
good citizenship
Word origin
[1785–95; ‹ F civisme ‹ L cīv(is) citizen + F -isme-ism]This word is first recorded in the period 1785–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: depot, edit, initiative, logrolling, nitrogen-ism is a suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it was used to form action nounsfrom verbs (baptism). On this model, -ism is used as a productive suffix in the formation of nouns denoting action or practice,state or condition, principles, doctrines, a usage or characteristic, devotion oradherence, etc. (criticism; barbarism; Darwinism; despotism; plagiarism; realism; witticism; intellectualism)
Examples of 'civism' in a sentence
civism
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a scale of organizational civism behavior intention.
Juliana Barreiros Porto, Álvaro Tamayo 2003, 'Desenvolvimento e validação da escala de civismo nas organizações Development andvalidation of the organizational civism scale', Estudos de Psicologia (Natal)http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-294X2003000300006. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)