ism

I0249200 (ĭz′əm)n. Informal A distinctive doctrine, system, or theory: "Formalism, by being an 'ism,' kills form by hugging it to death" (Peter Viereck).

[From -ism.]

ism

(ˈɪzəm) ninformal often derogatory an unspecified doctrine, system, or practice

ISM

abbreviation for (Astronomy) interstellar medium

ism

(ˈɪz əm)

n. a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice: capitalism, socialism, and other isms. [< -ism]

-ism

a suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it was used to form action nouns from verbs (baptism); on this model, used as a productive suffix in the formation of nouns denoting action or practice, state or condition, principles, doctrines, a usage or characteristic, devotion or adherence, etc.: Darwinism; despotism; plagiarism; realism; witticism. Compare -ist, -ize. [< Greek -ismos, -isma]

Thesaurus

Noun

ism - a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or schooldoctrine, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thoughtnuclear deterrence - the military doctrine that an enemy will be deterred from using nuclear weapons as long as he can be destroyed as a consequence; "when two nations both resort to nuclear deterrence the consequence could be mutual destruction"belief - any cognitive content held as trueCabalism, Kabbalism - the doctrines of the Kabbalahabolitionism - the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slaveryabsolutism - the doctrine of an absolute beingamoralism - the doctrine that moral distinctions are invalidanimalism - the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual natureanimism - the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls; "animism is common among primitive peoples"antiestablishmentarianism, antiestablishmentism - the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishmentasceticism - the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual statecontextualism - any doctrine emphasizing the importance of the context in solving problems or establishing the meaning of termscreationism - the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis; "creationism denies the theory of evolution of species"credo, creed - any system of principles or beliefsdivine right, divine right of kings - the doctrine that kings derive their right to rule directly from God and are not accountable to their subjects; rebellion is the worst of political crimes; "the doctrine of the divine right of kings was enunciated by the Stuarts in Britain in the 16th century"dogma - a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative; "he believed all the Marxist dogma"dualism - the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evildynamism - any of the various theories or doctrines or philosophical systems that attempt to explain the phenomena of the universe in terms of some immanent force or energyepicureanism - a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophersestablishmentarianism, establishmentism - the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishmentethicism - a doctrine that ethics and ethical ideas are valid and important; "his ethicism often led him to moralize"expansionism - the doctrine of expanding the territory or the economic influence of a countryformalism - the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be representedfunctionalism - any doctrine that stresses utility or purposeGirondism - the doctrine of the Girondistsgospel - a doctrine that is believed to be of great importance; "Newton's writings were gospel for those who followed"gymnosophy - the doctrine of a sect of Hindu philosophers who practiced nudity and asceticism and meditationimitation - the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitationslaissez faire, individualism - the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairsinternationalism - the doctrine that nations should cooperate because their common interests are more important than their differencesunilateralism - the doctrine that nations should conduct their foreign affairs individualistically without the advice or involvement of other nationsirredentism, irridentism - the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically relatedliteralism - the doctrine of realistic (literal) portrayal in art or literaturemajority rule, democracy - the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole groupmonism - the doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or elementmulticulturalism - the doctrine that several different cultures (rather than one national culture) can coexist peacefully and equitably in a single countrynationalism - the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any othernationalism - the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goalsnihilism - a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sakepacificism, pacifism, passivism - the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiablepluralism - the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elementspopulism - the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elitepresentism - the doctrine that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (as in the Book of Revelations) are presently in the course of being fulfilledfreethinking, rationalism - the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct

Translations

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ISM

Acronym	Definition
ISM➣International Symposium on Microarchitecture
ISM➣Institute for Supply Management
ISM➣Industrial, Scientific and Medical (radio spectrum)
ISM➣International Solidarity Movement
ISM➣Incredible Sweater Machine
ISM➣International Safety Management
ISM➣Integrated Safety Management (US Department of Energy)
ISM➣International Spy Museum (Washington, DC)
ISM➣International Maritime Organization
ISM➣Information Security Manual (Australia)
ISM➣Interstellar Medium
ISM➣Industrial Sewing Machine (various organizations)
ISM➣International School of Management (New York, Paris, Tokyo)
ISM➣Information Security Management
ISM➣Illinois State Museum (Springfield, IL)
ISM➣In-Kind Support and Maintenance (supplemental disability benefit)
ISM➣Information Systems Management
ISM➣In Samenwerking Met (Dutch)
ISM➣Institute of Structural Mechanics (various locations)
ISM➣Ministerium des Innern und für Sport (Ministry of the Interior and of Sports; Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)
ISM➣International Supply Management
ISM➣Information Services Manager
ISM➣Information Systems Modelling
ISM➣Independent School Management
ISM➣Indian School of Mines (Dhabi, India)
ISM➣Intersite Messaging Service
ISM➣Ibm Session Manager
ISM➣Internetwork Status Monitor
ISM➣Integrated Safety Management
ISM➣Internet Service Manager
ISM➣Image Switch Menu
ISM➣Institute of Statistical Mathematics
ISM➣Image Support Module
ISM➣International Service Manager
ISM➣Infrared Sensor Module
ISM➣Interior Shading Method
ISM➣I-Control Services Manager
ISM➣Intrushield Security Manager
ISM➣Intel Server Management
ISM➣Incremental Search Method
ISM➣Integrated Service Management
ISM➣Image Source Method
ISM➣Industrial Security Manual (US DoD 5220.22-M)
ISM➣It Still Moves (My Morning Jacket album)
ISM➣Indian System of Medicines
ISM➣Incorporated Society of Musicians
ISM➣Intimate Shared Memory
ISM➣Institut Supérieur des Métiers (French: Higher Institute of Trades; est. 1990)
ISM➣Internet Service Manager (Microsoft)
ISM➣Ice Sheet Model (environmental science)
ISM➣Interstellar Matter
ISM➣International Symposium on Multimedia
ISM➣Independence Seaport Museum (Philadelphia, PA)
ISM➣International Sales Management, LLC (Indian Springs, AL)
ISM➣Industrial Strength Marketing (Brentwood, TN)
ISM➣Instructional Staff Member
ISM➣Interpretive Structural Modeling
ISM➣In-Store Marketing
ISM➣Industrial Security Manual
ISM➣Intelligent Storage Management
ISM➣Independent Student Media
ISM➣Installation Support Module
ISM➣Ingeniería y Sistemas Mecánicos (Spanish: Engineering and Mechanical Systems)
ISM➣Instructional Supplies and Materials (education fee; Canada)
ISM➣Integrated Software Metrics
ISM➣Inductor Super Magnetron
ISM➣International School, Manila (Philippines)
ISM➣Integrated Supplier Management (Capability Maturity Model Integration)
ISM➣Information Technology Security Magazine
ISM➣Induction/Synchronous Motor
ISM➣Integrated Security Management
ISM➣Integrated System Management
ISM➣Imperiled Species Management (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission)
ISM➣International Spaceflight Museum (virtual museum)
ISM➣Information Security Markings (national intelligence)
ISM➣Integrated Services Module
ISM➣Information Systems Management Corporation
ISM➣International Student Ministries
ISM➣Institut des Sciences des Microstructures (French; Canada)
ISM➣Intel Server Manager (software)
ISM➣Integrated Software Management
ISM➣Industry Standard Module
ISM➣In-Transit Service Manager (aviation)
ISM➣Institut Suisse de Météorologie (Swiss Weather Institute)
ISM➣International School of Minnesota
ISM➣Induction Squirrel Motor
ISM➣Integrated Sustainment Maintenance (Army)
ISM➣I, Self, Me (recovery)
ISM➣Incredibly Short Memory
ISM➣IntruShield Security Manager (software)
ISM➣Information System Manager
ISM➣Interactive Storage Media
ISM➣Inverted Slot-Mode (microwave theory)
ISM➣Institut Sainte-Marie
ISM➣International Systems Marketing, Inc.
ISM➣I Sabotage Myself
ISM➣Information Sources Map
ISM➣Insensitive Munitions
ISM➣ISDN Standards Management
ISM➣Institute Sergeant Major (Singapore Armed Forces)
ISM➣IBM (International Business Machines) Session Manager (IBM Corp.)
ISM➣Intensive Support and Monitoring Service (UK)
ISM➣Internet Search Metrics (various locations)
ISM➣Identity and Security Management (software)
ISM➣Institute of Science and Management (Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia)
ISM➣In Service Measurement
ISM➣Implicit Space Mapping
ISM➣Institute of Supervisory Management
ISM➣International Surfing Museum (Huntington Beach, CA)
ISM➣Integrated Sight Module
ISM➣Input Signal Management
ISM➣Integrated Structural Model (Bentley Systems, Inc.)
ISM➣In-Service Manager
ISM➣Input Source Manager
ISM➣Interactive Services Menu (interactive TV, WAP)
ISM➣Installation Spectrum Manager
ISM➣In-Flight Service Manager
ISM➣Industry-Sponsored Marketplace (B2B term for trading sites run by large corporations for supply or sell sides)
ISM➣International Staple and Machine Company
ISM➣Integrated Shadow Mask
ISM➣Information Santé Multimédia (Information System Medical)
ISM➣Information Systems Modernization
ISM➣Intensive Site Monitoring
ISM➣Independent Subcarrier Method
ISM➣Investment Simulation Model
ISM➣Image Storage Module(s)
ISM➣Interactive Satellite Multi-Media
ISM➣Internal Specifications Maintenance
ISM➣Inventory Service Manager
ISM➣Integrated Safety Manager
ISM➣Interacting State Machine (Siemens/Infineon SLE66 microcontroller for chip cards)
ISM➣Integrated Situation Management
ISM➣Intelligence, Surveillance and Monitoring
ISM➣Industrial Staff Member
ISM➣Institute Safety Management
ISM➣International Software Marketing, Incorporated
ISM➣Installable Software Module
ISM➣iSearch Media, LLC
ISM➣Improved Single Map
ISM➣Independent Stimulation Model
ISM➣Ironsmith Machine (Ontario, Canada)

ism

noun

Synonyms for ism

noun a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

Synonyms

doctrine
philosophical system
philosophy
school of thought

Related Words

nuclear deterrence
belief
Cabalism
Kabbalism
abolitionism
absolutism
amoralism
animalism
animism
antiestablishmentarianism
antiestablishmentism
asceticism
contextualism
creationism
credo
creed
divine right
divine right of kings
dogma
dualism
dynamism
epicureanism
establishmentarianism
establishmentism
ethicism
expansionism
formalism
functionalism
Girondism
gospel
gymnosophy
imitation
laissez faire
individualism
internationalism
unilateralism
irredentism
irridentism
literalism
majority rule
democracy
monism
multiculturalism
nationalism
nihilism
pacificism
pacifism
passivism
pluralism
populism
presentism
freethinking
rationalism
reformism
secular humanism
humanism
humanitarianism
egalitarianism
equalitarianism
feminism
reincarnationism
secessionism
secularism
phenomenology
philosophical doctrine
philosophical theory
states' rights
commandment
precept
teaching
theological doctrine
utilitarianism
descriptivism
prescriptivism
church doctrine
religious doctrine
millennium