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noun
An emphasis upon ethnic identity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Prejudice based on ethnic origin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
heathenism; pagan superstition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
heathenism; pagan superstition.
religions from Antiquity regarded collectively apart from Christianity and Judaism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable
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noun
heathenism; pagan superstition.
religions from Antiquity regarded collectively apart from Christianity and Judaism.
the characteristics of these religions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable
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History
Etymology tree English ethnic Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English ethnicism From ethnic + -ism.
