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bowelism

bowelism is the alternative form of bowellism.

Meaning of bowellism

Noun

bowellism (uncountable)

  1. (dated) high tech architecture; a style of architecture that places pipes, ducts and other mechanical utilities outside the building to maximise interior space.
    • Bowellism, is the strangest of the three (fig 15). It never, in fact, reached the stage of a built building, at least not in its ultimate style.1970, Peter Cook, Experimental Architecture

Questions about bowelism

What is bowelism the alternative form of?
Bowelism is the alternative form of bowellism.

Words near bowelism in the dictionary

  1. bowel obstruction
  2. bowel obstructions
  3. bowel transit time
  4. boweled
  5. boweling
  6. bowelism
  7. Bowell
  8. bowelled
  9. bowelless
  10. bowelling
  11. bowellism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowelism (page history and authors); bowellism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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