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homerism

/ˈhoʊməɹɪzəm/

homerism noun: bias toward one's favorite team.

Noun (1)

homerism (uncountable)

  1. (US) Bias toward one's favorite team.
    • Degrees of homerism from local MLB, NBA, or NHL announcers are often seen, and they’re sometimes embraced and sometimes criticized. But homerism usually isn’t seen as much in football TV broadcasts, where most broadcasts are national.2025 June 29, Andrew Bucholtz, “CFL, CFB Hall-of-Famer Tracy Ham on broadcasting: “They kicked me out because I said ‘us’ and ‘we’ too much!””, in Awful Announcing, United States, retrieved 03 May...

Noun (2) capitalized: Homerism

Homerism (countable and uncountable, plural Homerisms)

  1. (countable) A word or phrase characteristic of the writings of Homer.
  2. (uncountable) The miming of scenes from one of Homer's epics. It was common in Greek- and Roman-era pagan festivals.

Forms of homerism

pluralHomerisms

Origin of homerism

From homer (“a person who is extremely devoted to a favorite team”) + -ism.

From Homer + -ism.

Questions about homerism

What does homerism mean?
Homerism means bias toward one's favorite team.
What part of speech is homerism?
Homerism is a noun.
How do you pronounce homerism?
Homerism is pronounced /ˈhoʊməɹɪzəm/.
What is the plural of homerism?
The plural of homerism is Homerisms.

Words near homerism in the dictionary

  1. Homerid
  2. Homeridae
  3. Homeridian
  4. Homerids
  5. homering
  6. homerism
  7. Homerisms
  8. Homerist
  9. Homerists
  10. Homerite
  11. Homerites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homerism (page history and authors); Homerism (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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