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- -ism[-ism 词源字典]
- suffix forming nouns of action, state, condition, doctrine, from French -isme or directly from Latin -isma, -ismus, from Greek -isma, from stem of verbs in -izein. Used as an independent word, chiefly disparagingly, from 1670s.[-ism etymology, -ism origin, 英语词源]