Word.ws English Dictionary

nosism

nosism noun: a form of egotism in a group of people.

Noun

nosism (uncountable)

  1. A form of egotism in a group of people.
  2. The use of a first-person plural pronoun (such as we) instead of a first-person singular pronoun (such as I) to refer to oneself.

Origin of nosism

Latin nōs (“we, us”) + -ism, modelled after egotism.

Questions about nosism

What does nosism mean?
Nosism means a form of egotism in a group of people.
What part of speech is nosism?
Nosism is a noun.

Words near nosism in the dictionary

  1. nosing around
  2. nosing out
  3. nosing over
  4. nosings
  5. nosireebob
  6. nosism
  7. nosist
  8. Nosivka
  9. Noska
  10. Noskas
  11. nosle

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nosism (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: “nosism.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nosism. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.