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Tamilisms

Tamilisms is the plural of Tamilism.

Meaning of Tamilism

Proper noun

Tamilism (countable and uncountable, plural Tamilisms)

  1. A religion, philosophy and/or culture native to Tamil Nadu, characterized by the worship of ancestors and nature
    • The modern Shaivism shows clear vestiges of difference from the original Tamilism; for the cause of which we need not go far to look, its corruption being chiefly due to the intermixture of Aryanism so widely given birth to in their works of the Puranic period by the Brahmans who had an excessive...1992, Sumathi Ramaswamy, En/gendering Language, page 75
  2. Tamil nationalism.
    • It is symptomatic of inward alienation and militant Tamilism.1969, Govind Sadashiv Ghurye, Caste and Race in India, page 364

Questions about Tamilisms

What is Tamilisms the plural of?
Tamilisms is the plural of Tamilism.

Words near Tamilisms in the dictionary

  1. Tamilans
  2. Tamilian
  3. Tamilians
  4. Tamilic
  5. Tamilism
  6. Tamilisms
  7. Tamillian
  8. Tamillians
  9. Tamilness
  10. Tamils
  11. tamin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tamilisms (page history and authors); Tamilism (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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