porism

As nouns the difference between porism and purism

is that porism is (geometry) a proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions while purism is (uncountable) an insistence on the traditionally correct way of doing things, especially of language.

As nouns the difference between porism and poorism

is that porism is (geometry) a proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions while poorism is (neologism) slum tourism; recreational visits to impoverished areas.

As nouns the difference between porism and popism

is that porism is (geometry) a proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions while popism is support for the pope.

In geometry terms the difference between prism and porism

is that prism is a polyhedron with parallel ends of the same size and shape, the other faces being parallelogram-shaped sides while porism is a proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions.