Euphemism vs Ism - What's the difference?
euphemism | ism |
(uncountable) The use of a word or phrase to replace another with one that is considered less offensive, blunt or vulgar than the word or phrase it replaces.
(countable) A word or phrase that is used to replace another in this way.
An ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism.
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XV, ''Practical — Devotional
* 1965 , , Marxism, One Hundred Years in the Life of a Doctrine , p. 357,
* 1969 , Walter E. Minchinton, Mercantilism; System Or Expediency? , p. xi,
* 1986 , (Matthew Broderick) (as Ferris Bueller), :
* 1994 , Kenneth Kaye, Workplace Wars and How to End Them , p. 70,
Specifically , a form of discrimination, such as racism or sexism.
As nouns the difference between euphemism and ism
is that euphemism is fib for lieism is an ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism.As an abbreviation ISM is
abbreviation of w:Imperial Service Order|Imperial Service Medal|lang=en.euphemism
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{{examples-right, examples= * fib'' for '' * correctional facility'' for ''prison'' (compare dysphemism: ''slammer ) * sleep (with)]]'' for ''[[have sex, have sex (with)'' (compare dysphemisms: ''bang'', ''fuck ) * pass away'' for '' * vertically challenged'' for ''short'' (physical stature; compare dysphemisms: ''midget'', ''dwarf ) }}Antonyms
* dysphemism * expletiveExternal links
* (wikipedia "euphemism") * * * *ism
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(en noun)- […] his religion, his worship was like his daily bread to him; — which he did not take the trouble to talk much about; which he merely ate at stated intervals, and lived and did his work upon! This is ’s Catholicism of the Twelfth Century; — something like the Ism''''' of all true men in all true centuries, I fancy! Alas, compared with any of the '''''Isms current in these poor days, what a thing!
- An ism does not have to possess the fearful implements of state power to cut off a a deviant or heretical member.
- In his exposition, he has failed to achieve the identification of situation, theory, and policy necessary to create an ism .
- Isms' in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an ' ism – he should believe in himself.
- It is important to distinguish between an ism' and a mere generalization about group differences. Generalizations that have statistical validity are not '''isms'''. An ' ism assumes that the generalization applies to an individual.