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amalgamism

amalgamism noun: support for the merger or amalgamation of different things.

Noun

amalgamism (uncountable)

  1. Support for the merger or amalgamation of different things.
    • Commitment to this idea may well be reaction against the unbridled, atomistic individualism which has wreaked havoc in society as a whole and in innumerable lives, and which, as his books indicate, Steinbeck recognizes as disastrous for mankind. But he has swung to and remains at the opposite...1951, John S. Kennedy, “John Steinbeck: Life Affirmed and Dissolved”, in Harold C. Gardiner, editor, Fifty Years of the American Novel: A Christian Appraisal, New York, N.Y.; London: Charles...

Origin of amalgamism

From amalgam + -ism.

Questions about amalgamism

What does amalgamism mean?
Amalgamism means support for the merger or amalgamation of different things.
What part of speech is amalgamism?
Amalgamism is a noun.

Words near amalgamism in the dictionary

  1. amalgamatizing
  2. amalgamator
  3. amalgamators
  4. amalgamed
  5. amalgaming
  6. amalgamism
  7. amalgamist
  8. amalgamists
  9. amalgamization
  10. amalgamizations
  11. amalgamize

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