A list of 163 words by alexz.
- Eleaticwas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- Shermanesquewas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- squibblewas added by alexz and appears on 3 lists
- ceratopsidwas added by alexz and appears on 3 lists
- dephlogisticatedwas added by alexz and appears on 8 lists
- lilliputianwas added by alexz and appears on 93 lists
- Madisonianwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Brobdingnagianwas added by alexz and appears on 18 lists
- Stygian holewas added by alexz and appears on 3 lists
- astroturfwas added by alexz and appears on 10 lists
- billingsgatewas added by alexz and appears on 49 lists
- Iesvswas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- NoLItawas added by alexz and appears on 4 lists
- decimatewas added by alexz and appears on 90 lists
- meltdownwas added by alexz and appears on 32 lists
- China syndromewas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- stoicwas added by alexz and appears on 150 lists
- telegramwas added by alexz and appears on 13 lists
- Cold Warwas added by alexz and appears on 5 lists
- Dirty Thirtieswas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Great Depressionwas added by alexz and appears on 4 lists
- Roaring Twentieswas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Dust Bowlwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- another Vietnamwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- in the trencheswas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Warsaw Conventionwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Miranda rightswas added by alexz and appears on 3 lists
- Masonicwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Illuminatiwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Protestantwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Harajuku girlwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Schrödinger's catwas added by alexz and appears on 5 lists
- Dark Ageswas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- colonialwas added by alexz and appears on 16 lists
- Minoanwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- flapperswas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Midievalwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Iron Curtainwas added by alexz and appears on 5 lists
- Big Brotherwas added by alexz and appears on 4 lists
- crusadewas added by alexz and appears on 30 lists
- Byzantinewas added by alexz and appears on 26 lists
- Neolithicwas added by alexz and appears on 5 lists
- Impressionismwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Trancendentalismwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Romanticismwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Pre-Raphealitewas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Pointillismwas added by alexz and appears on 3 lists
- Neoclassicismwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Doricwas added by alexz and appears on 5 lists
- Ionicwas added by alexz and appears on 6 lists
- Hellenisticwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Platonicwas added by alexz and appears on 9 lists
- Gregorianwas added by alexz and appears on 4 lists
- Synicismwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Stoicismwas added by alexz and appears on 4 lists
- Corinthianwas added by alexz and appears on 4 lists
- Neoplatonismwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Epicureanwas added by alexz and appears on 6 lists
- Art Nouveauwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Bauhauswas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Art Decowas added by alexz and appears on 4 lists
- Fauvismwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Modernismwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Postmodernismwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Baroquewas added by alexz and appears on 7 lists
- Mannerismwas added by alexz and appears on 3 lists
- Nominalismwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Rococowas added by alexz and appears on 3 lists
- Gothicwas added by alexz and appears on 9 lists
- Renaissancewas added by alexz and appears on 11 lists
- Oedipalwas added by alexz and appears on 5 lists
- Beethovenianwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Schlegelianwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Updikeanwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Panofskyanwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Stravinskianwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Brechtianwas added by alexz and appears on 4 lists
- Marxianwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Whitteresquewas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Chagallianwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Kubrickianwas added by alexz and appears on 4 lists
- Duchampianwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Rauschenbergianwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Mahlerianwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Pagnolesquewas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Rousseauesquewas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Steinbeckianwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Rousseauianwas added by alexz and appears on 4 lists
- Paulinewas added by alexz and appears on 3 lists
- confucianismwas added by alexz and appears on 5 lists
- lovecraftianwas added by alexz and appears on 18 lists
- Herculeanwas added by alexz and appears on 18 lists
- quixoticwas added by alexz and appears on 551 lists
- Elizabethanwas added by alexz and appears on 4 lists
- Jungianwas added by alexz and appears on 3 lists
- Edwardianwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Aesopianwas added by alexz and appears on 6 lists
- Shakespeareanwas added by alexz and appears on 8 lists
- Malthusianwas added by alexz and appears on 5 lists
- Socraticwas added by alexz and appears on 3 lists
- Byronicwas added by alexz and appears on 4 lists
- Aristotelianwas added by alexz and appears on 6 lists
- Georgianwas added by alexz and appears on 5 lists
- Arthurianwas added by alexz and appears on 5 lists
- Napoleonicwas added by alexz and appears on 3 lists
- Dickensianwas added by alexz and appears on 7 lists
- Ptolemaicwas added by alexz and appears on 4 lists
- KIafkaesquewas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Newtonianwas added by alexz and appears on 4 lists
- Wagnerianwas added by alexz and appears on 5 lists
- Carolingianwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- draconianwas added by alexz and appears on 184 lists
- Cartesianwas added by alexz and appears on 9 lists
- Baconianwas added by alexz and appears on 5 lists
- bacchanalwas added by alexz and appears on 80 lists
- Barmecidewas added by alexz and appears on 9 lists
- Phillipicwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Myrmidonwas added by alexz and appears on 12 lists
- bowdlerizewas added by alexz and appears on 136 lists
- Sapphicwas added by alexz and appears on 10 lists
- gerrymanderwas added by alexz and appears on 102 lists
- Galenismwas added by alexz and appears on 4 lists
- Darwinianwas added by alexz and appears on 6 lists
- Pickwickianwas added by alexz and appears on 6 lists
- Rhadamanthinewas added by alexz and appears on 7 lists
- Hudibrasticwas added by alexz and appears on 11 lists
- Darwinismwas added by alexz and appears on 5 lists
- Darwinisticwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Freudianwas added by alexz and appears on 6 lists
- Bolshevismwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Babismwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Dadaismwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Fabianismwas added by alexz and appears on 3 lists
- Fourierismwas added by alexz and appears on 5 lists
- Jacobinismwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Gongorismwas added by alexz and appears on 9 lists
- Keynesianismwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Keynesianwas added by alexz and appears on 4 lists
- Leninismwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Lamarckismwas added by alexz and appears on 4 lists
- Maoismwas added by alexz and appears on 3 lists
- Malthusianismwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Marxismwas added by alexz and appears on 8 lists
- McCarthyismwas added by alexz and appears on 4 lists
- Nazismwas added by alexz and appears on 5 lists
- Maoistwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Marxistwas added by alexz and appears on 7 lists
- Quixotismwas added by alexz and appears on 3 lists
- Stalinismwas added by alexz and appears on 3 lists
- Shakespearianismwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Gallicismwas added by alexz and appears on 4 lists
- Atticismwas added by alexz and appears on 3 lists
- blackguardismwas added by alexz and appears on 3 lists
- Palamismwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Mohammedanismwas added by alexz and appears on 3 lists
- Calvinismwas added by alexz and appears on 5 lists
- Protestantismwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Lutheranismwas added by alexz and appears on 3 lists
- Victorianismwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- McClellanismwas added by alexz and appears on just this list
- Napoleon complexwas added by alexz and appears on 2 lists
- Machiavellianwas added by alexz and appears on 39 lists
- Orwellianwas added by alexz and appears on 10 lists
alexz commented on the list references-historical-events
Sadly, the dictionary entries for some of these X-isms are of written "of the X" , so, if you're not familiar with the X, that dictionary entry is silly to use.
references - wictionary's ism page. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ism#English wordnik ism list http://wordnik.com/lists/isms--1
edit 1.
hmm... it seems that there is also the 'namesakes' and the eponymous list.
http://wordnik.com/lists/namesakes--1
http://wordnik.com/lists/eponymous-adjectives--1
edit 2.
also, reference cultural movements.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_movement
September 8, 2013
ruzuzu commented on the list references-historical-events
Excellent list.
October 11, 2013
alexz commented on the list references-historical-events
Thanks Ruzuzu. I made it because I run into words that have no meaning to me. Ie, I never read George Orwell's book, so my idea of Orwellian may be different from a book reader's version.
October 11, 2013