BENTHAMISM

Definition: BENTHAMISM

BENTHAMISM

Noun

1. That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Expression: BENTHAMISM

Modern Translations: BENTHAMISM

Language		Translations for "BENTHAMISM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		бентамизъм. (various references)

Hungarian		benthamizmus. (various references)

Pig Latin		enthamismbay

Russian		учение бентама. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bentamizam. (various references)

Swedish		utilitarism (utilitarianism). (various references)

Vietnamese		thuyết vị lợi (utilitarianism), thuyết Ben-tam. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Rhyming with "BENTHAMISM"

Words rhyming with "BENTHAMISM" (pronounced 'Ben"tham*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism. (additional references)

Anagrams: BENTHAMISM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-h-i-m-m-n-s-t"
	-2 letters: absinthe, ambients, hammiest, hematins, memsahib.
	-3 letters: absinth, ambient, ammines, anthems, atheism, banshie, banties, basinet, batsmen, beamish, etamins, haemins, hematin, henbits, hetmans, inmates, maihems, mismate, misname, semimat, sheitan, sthenia, tameins, tammies.
	-4 letters: absent, ambits, aments, amines, ammine, animes, anthem, ashmen, banish, bathes, batmen, bemist, bimahs, binate, etamin, habits, haemin, hasten, hemins, henbit, hetman, immane.
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