Noun: communism
| Singular | communism |
| Plural | communisms |
Sample Sentences
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I want to gather together about twenty souls and sail away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort of communism as far as necessaries of life go, and some real decency. [1932, D. H. Lawrence, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Edited by A. Huxley, page 219:]
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Engels observes in one of his early writings that the Hegelian Left was the natural approach to communism, and that Hegelian communists such as Hess, Ruge, and Herwegh were a proof that the Germans must adopt communism if they were to remain faithful to their philosophical tradition from Kant to Hegel. [1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 83:]
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This tax plan is communism!
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A recent survey of 633 South Korean scientists found not only that communism was the Mertonian norm they thought most respected in practice (Kim and Kim 2018, 9), but also that younger scientists’ replies showed evidence of ‘mounting tension between the commercialisation of academic science and the norm of communalism’ (Kim and Kim 2018, 19). Our focus on scientific communism and its relationship to commercial research may thus reflect the concerns of working scientists. [2022 January 26, Liam Kofi Bright, Remco Heesen, “To Be Scientific Is To Be Communist”, in Social Epistemology, volume 37, number 3, →DOI:]
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Rational expectations econometrics extends a communism of statistical models to include a “sharing with nature” that is an essential input into making maximum likelihood or generalized method of moments be good estimators. [2025 November 26, Thomas Sargent, “Macroeconomics after Lucas”, in Journal of Political Economy, volume 133, number 11, →DOI:]
Nouns inflected like communism
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *mey-
3. Proto-Indo-European *ḱom-moy-ni-s
4. Proto-Italic *kommoinis
5. Old Latin comoinis
6. Latin commūnis
7. Old French comun
8. French commun
9. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
10. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
12. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
13. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
14. Proto-Indo-European *-mos
15. Proto-Indo-European *-mós
16. Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
17. Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)bor.
18. Latin -ismusbor.
19. French -isme
20. French communismebor.
21. English communism
22. A borrowing from French communisme, which was formed from commun (“common”) (from Latin commūnis) and the suffix -isme (“-ism”). By surface analysis, commune + -ism. See: French Nouns '
communisme', Latin Nouns '
commūnis'.
Verbs referencing "communism"
Polish Nouns
komunizm, Latvian Nouns
komunisms.