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principalism

principalism is the alternative form of principlism.

Meaning of principlism

Noun

principlism (uncountable)

  1. A system of ethics based on the four moral principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice.

Origin of principalism

From principal + -ism.

Questions about principalism

What is principalism the alternative form of?
Principalism is the alternative form of principlism.

Words near principalism in the dictionary

  1. principal ultrafilter
  2. principal ultrafilters
  3. principal-agent problem
  4. principal-agent problems
  5. principalisation
  6. principalism
  7. principalist
  8. principalists
  9. principalities
  10. principality
  11. Principality of Abkhazia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: principalism (page history and authors); principlism (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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