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1. A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism. Source: opted

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act process anglicism baptism characteristic doctrine galvanism hypnotism idiom indicating organism result sensualism socialism state suffix theory

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