Far more common are systems of social democracy, now often referred to as “democratic socialism,” in which extensive state regulation, with limited state ownership, has been employed by democratically elected governments (as in Sweden and Denmark) in the belief that it produces a fair distribution of income without impairing economic growth. In the modern era, “pure” socialism has been seen only rarely and usually briefly in a few Communist regimes. The complex meanings of socialism have required new information at its dictionary entry: The fact that a major-party candidate for president embraces socialism shows that the term has moved beyond its Cold War associations. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders calls himself a “democratic socialist,” and the word spiked in the summer when large crowds showed up at multi-city rallies organized through social media, and again after the first Democratic debate in October. It jumped several spots to #7 on the all-time most looked-up word list, with an increase of 169% over last year. The top seven isms account for millions of lookups in 2015.Ĭuriosity about this year’s top word, socialism, has been especially intense this year. There are 2733 English words ending in -ism entered in Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged dictionary. Ism is also sometimes a noun meaning “a distinctive doctrine, cause, or theory” or “an oppressive and especially discriminatory attitude or belief.” It’s usually used to emphasize a group of -ism words, as in “cubism, abstract expressionism, and all the other isms.” It has since acquired many other uses, including identifying a religion or practice ( Calvinism, vegetarianism), a prejudice based on a specific quality ( sexism, ageism), an adherence to a system ( stoicism, altruism), a condition based on excess of something ( alcoholism), or a characteristic feature or trait ( colloquialism). Originally, it turned a verb into a noun: think of baptize and baptism, criticize and criticism, or plagiarize and plagiarism. The suffix -ism goes all the way back to Ancient Greek, and was used in Latin and medieval French on its way to English. Read on to find more about each of these words, and the events that triggered them, as well as five other words that sent us to the dictionary in 2015. ![]() Taken together, these seven words represent millions of individual dictionary lookups. Discover and Share the best GIFs on Tenor. They have one or two eyes, and their irises are almost always brown (except for Bob, who has one green and one brown eye ). ![]() They are depicted as being roughly one-third to one-half the height of humans but they were later revealed to be 3 feet 7 inches (1.1 m) tall. ![]() A suffix is the Word of the Year because a small group of words that share this three-letter ending triggered both high volume and significant year-over-year increase in lookups at . Created:, 2:50:19 AM Related GIFs The perfect Minion Kevin Butt Minions Minion Butt Animated GIF for your conversation. The Minions are small, yellow capsule-shaped creatures with round gray goggles.
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