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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 -ism /ˌɪzəm/ 後綴
 性質,狀態,行為,中毒,主義

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 -ism  A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 ism
      n : a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by
          some group or school [syn: doctrine, philosophy, philosophical
          system, school of thought]