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Meaning of ismos

ismos: It is an ironic way of grouping doctrines, cultural, artistic, social or political movements, which usually end with the suffix is; and although it may exist, it is not used in singular. See also as -ismo , ista .; -ISMO Suffix that forms nouns from terms describing philosophical currents or schools, policies, doctrines, systems or movements. Also types of diseases. For example socialism, Catholicism, illiteracy, Francoism, Hinduism, autism, occultism, aphorism, idiom, mutism, realism, astigmatism.