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twinism

twinism noun: the phenomenon of twins being born.

Noun

twinism (uncountable)

  1. The phenomenon of twins being born.
    • In some parts of precolonial Yorubaland, […] twins and their parents were either banished or ritually slaughtered. This was not arbitrary as the prevailing explanation for the phenomenon of twinism found the mother culpable of an adultery with a spirit who was believed to own one of the babies....2024, J. Shola Omotola, Samuel Oyewole, The Political Economy of Kidnapping and Insecurity in Nigeria, page 156

Origin of twinism

From twin + -ism.

Questions about twinism

What does twinism mean?
Twinism means the phenomenon of twins being born.
What part of speech is twinism?
Twinism is a noun.

Words near twinism in the dictionary

  1. twinhulls
  2. twinight
  3. twining
  4. twiningly
  5. twinings
  6. twinism
  7. twinjet
  8. twinjets
  9. twink
  10. twink death
  11. twink deaths

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