Word.ws English Dictionary

cainism

cainism noun: siblicide, especially among animals.

Noun (1)

cainism (uncountable)

  1. siblicide, especially among animals.

Noun (2) capitalized: Cainism

Cainism (uncountable)

  1. A Gnostic sect that honored Cain and Judas.
  2. (alternative) Alternative form of cainism (“siblicide”)

Origin of cainism

From Cain + -ism.

Questions about cainism

What does cainism mean?
Cainism means siblicide, especially among animals.
What part of speech is cainism?
Cainism is a noun.

Words near cainism in the dictionary

  1. Caingua
  2. cainiaceous
  3. Cainian
  4. Cainians
  5. Cainish
  6. cainism
  7. Cainite
  8. Cainites
  9. Cainitic
  10. cainito
  11. cainitos

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cainism (page history and authors); Cainism (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cainism.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cainism. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.