Pronunciation : -ism.
Etymology : [F. -isme, or L. -ismus, Gr.
Definition : Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913