1K+ Words That Rhyme With CYNICISMS

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

• the act of excluding someone from society by general consent

• a word or phrase borrowed from French

• a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality

• obscure or irrational thought

• making decisions on the basis of what seems best instead of following some single doctrine or style

• (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity

• a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan)

• an exaggerated opinion of your own importance

• an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others

• an exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself

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

• a policy of taking direct action to achieve a political or social goal

• the Arabic (or decimal) system of numeration

• computation with Arabic figures

• a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms

• disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings

• a serious examination and judgment of something

• a written evaluation of a work of literature

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

• 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

• an exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself

• 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

• (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

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

• the state of being actual or real

• (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived

• an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description

• (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names