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Do you prefer Bourbonism or Fletcherism? Name that obscure "-ism"

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Bourbonism

extreme conservatism, especially in politics.

Bantingism

a weight-reduction method based on a diet high in proteins and low in fats and carbohydrates.

Copperheadism

(during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.

Epicureanism

the doctrine that holds the external world is a series of fortuitous combinations of atoms and that the highest good is pleasure.

Fletcherism

the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass.

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Gongorism

an affected literary style characterized by intricate language and obscurity.

Grundyism

a prudish adherence to conventionality, especially in personal behavior.

Pickwickian

the use or interpretation of an expression that is intentionally or unintentionally odd or unusual.

Vansittartism

a doctrine holding that the militaristic and aggressive policies of German leaders since the time of the Franco-Prussian war have had the support of the German people and that Germany should undergo a program of demilitarization and corrective education to prevent similar action in the future.

Zurvanism

a Zoroastrian heresy that developed during the late Achaemenian period.

Goldwynism

a phrase or statement involving a humorous and supposedly unintentional misuse of idiom.

Heracliteanism

a belief maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.

Hibernicism

an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.

Babelism

a confusion, as of ideas, speech, etc.

Stakhanovism

a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union.

Marcionism

a Gnostic ascetic sect that frejected the Old Testament and denied the incarnation of God in Christ.

Pyrrhonism

extreme or absolute skepticism.