-ism

=== [|Suffix] [|-ism] ===
 * 1) forming nouns on action or process or result based on the accompanying verb in [|-ize]
 * 2) forming the name of a system, school of thought or theory based on the name of its subject or object or alternatively on the name of its founder...
 * 3) the action, conduct or condition of a class of persons, "behaving like a ---" ( ( with overtones of the "terms for doctrines" sense below ) : )...
 * 4) class-names or descriptive terms for doctrines or principles in general..
 * 5) a peculiarity or characteristic of language..
 * 6) an ideology expressing belief in the superiority of a certain class within the concept expressed by the root word ( ( based on a late 20th-century narrowing of the "terms for a doctrine" sense ) : )..