Rhymes for ACTIVISMS

• the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil

• the attitude that society should be governed by an elite group of individuals

• the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented

• (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications

• the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms

• newspapers and magazines collectively

• the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media

• the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear

• the Arabic (or decimal) system of numeration

• computation with Arabic figures

• a cynical feeling of distrust

• freeing from evil spirits

• an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age

• the position that the meaning of life should be sought in the future

• a word or phrase borrowed from French

• a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery

• strict conformity to the letter of the law rather than its spirit

• a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality

• obscure or irrational thought

• an exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself

• the policy of perpetuating native cultures (in opposition to acculturation)

• (philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate

• a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake

• the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal

• complete denial of all established authority and institutions

• a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

• a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body

• the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)

• the act of excluding someone from society by general consent

• the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable

• (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value

• the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth

• a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God

• act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country

• a plaster containing powdered black mustard; applied to the skin as a counterirritant or rubefacient

• (philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist

• a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

• an involuntary orienting response; positive or negative reaction to a stimulus source

• the development of male secondary sexual characteristics in a female (or prematurely in a young boy)