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custodialisms

custodialisms is the plural of custodialism.

Meaning of custodialism

Noun

custodialism (usually uncountable, plural custodialisms)

  1. (usually) An approach to caring for people in institutions which emphasizes supervision and control over the inmate's environment and access to resources.
    • The large VA hospital, T, was considered intermediate or transitional in that it was in process of fairly rapid change away from custodialism.1970, Henry Wechsler, Leonard Solomon, Bernard M. Kramer, Social psychology and mental health, page 583

Questions about custodialisms

What is custodialisms the plural of?
Custodialisms is the plural of custodialism.

Words near custodialisms in the dictionary

  1. custodes regni
  2. custodes rotulorum
  3. custodia
  4. custodial
  5. custodialism
  6. custodialisms
  7. custodially
  8. custodiam
  9. custodiams
  10. custodian
  11. custodians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: custodialisms (page history and authors); custodialism (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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