2K+ Words That Rhyme With COSMETICISMS

• dominance through threat of punishment and violence

• a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

• an exaggerated opinion of your own importance

• an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others

• scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language)

• a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God

• the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge

• communication that is suitable for or intended to be instructive

• (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience

• the application of empirical methods in any art or science

• medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings

• a state of anticipation of sexuality

• the arousal of feelings of sexual desire

• the quality of being exotic

• a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches

• a theory that social and cultural events are determined by history

• asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience

• a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction

• impractical romantic ideals and attitudes

• a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization

• an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)

• the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge

• orthodoxy of a scholastic variety

• the system of philosophy dominant in medieval Europe; based on Aristotle and the Church Fathers

• doubt about the truth of something

• the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge

• orthodoxy of a scholastic variety

• Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes.

• a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art.

• using your own body as a sexual object

• a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex

• revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation

• dominance through threat of punishment and violence

• a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

• an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government.

• the doctrine of an absolute being, often related to idealism in philosophy.

• orthodoxy of a scholastic variety

• a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art.

• discrimination on the basis of a person's age

• the congenital absence of pigmentation in the eyes and skin and hair

• habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms

• an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess

• an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness

• the quality of being alien

• mountain climbing (not restricted to the Alps)

• the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money

• the doctrine that moral distinctions are invalid

• a Protestant movement in the 16th century that believed in the primacy of the Bible, baptised only believers, not infants, and believed in complete separation of church and state

• the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature

• preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites

• the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls

• a short pithy instructive saying

• (mineralogy) a star-shaped figure with six rays that is seen in some crystal structures under reflected or transmitted light

• (astronomy) a cluster of stars (or a small constellation)

• (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people

• (optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point

• the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times

• the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system

• any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy)