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ICONISM

Definition: ICONISM

ICONISM

Noun

1. The formation of a figure, representation, or semblance; a delineation or description.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Iconism \I"con*ism\, noun. [Latin expression iconismus, Greek, from to mold, delineate, from e'ikw`n an image: compare to the French expression iconisme.]. (Websters 1913)

Expression: ICONISM

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "ICONISM": auto-iconism.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: ICONISM

Language Translations for "iconism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

iconismay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "ICONISM"

Words rhyming with "ICONISM" (pronounced 'I"con*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, Anilinism, Animalism, Animism, Anomalism, Antagonism, Antarchism, Anthorism, Anthropomorphism, Anthropomorphitism, Anthropophuism, Antichronism, Anticivism, Anti-imperialism, Antinomianism, Antiquarianism, Anti-Semitism, Antitheism, Apheliotropism, Aphetism, Aphorism, Aplanatism, Apogeotropism, Apophlegmatism, Apriorism, Arabism, Aramaism, Archaism, Arianism, Aristocratism, Aristotelianism, Arminianism, Arsenicism, Asceticism, Asiaticism, Associationism, Astaticism, Asteism, Asterism, astigmatism, Asystolism, Atavism, Atheism, Athleticism, Athletism, Atomicism, Atomism, Atropism, Atticism, Attorneyism, Authorism, Autochthonism, Autoecism, Autohypnotism, Automatism, Automobilism, Automorphism, Autotheism, Autotropism, Averroism, Baalism, Babyism, Bacchanalianism, Bachelorism, Bahaism, Bantingism, BAPTISM, Barbarism, Bardism, Bastardism, Bathmism, Baunscheidtism, Beggarism, Benthamism, Biblicism, Bibliophilism, Bibliopolism, Bicyclism, Bilingualism, Biliteralism, Bimastism, Bimetallism, Biomagnetism, Biprism, Bitheism, Blackguardism, Bletonism, Blockheadism, Bluestockingism, Bohemianism, Bonapartism, Boodhism, Bossism, Boswellism, Boulangism, Bourbonism, Boycottism, Boyism, Braggardism, Brahmoism, Branchiomerism, Brigandism, Briticism, Bromism, Bromoiodism, Brutalism, Brutism, Buddhism, Buffoonism, Burkism, Cabalism, Caesarism, Cahenslyism, Calvinism, Cannibalism, Carbonarism, Carnalism, Cartesianism, Casualism, Catadicrotism, Catasterism, Catastrophism, Catechism, Catholicism, Cauterism, Cavalierism, Celticism, Cenobitism, Centonism, Centralism, Cephalism, Cerebralism, Ceremonialism, Cesarism, Chaldaism, Characterism, Charism, Charlatanism, Chartism, Chattelism, Chauvinism, Chemism, Chloralism, Chrism, Christianism, Chromatism, Chromism, Churchism, Ciceronianism, Cicisbeism, Cinchonism, Citicism, Civicism, Civism, Classicalism, Classicism, Clericalism, Cliquism, Cocainism, Cockneyism, Collectivism, Colloquialism, Colonialism, Commatism, Commensalism, Commercialism, Communalism, Communism, Compatriotism, Comtism, Conceptualism, Concettism, Confessionalism, Confucianism, Congregationalism, Congruism, Conservatism, Constitutionalism, Consubstantialism, Contrabandism, Conventionalism, Conversationism, Convictism, Corporealism, Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitism, Cosmotheism, creationism, Creticism, Cretinism, Cretism, Criticism, Cubism, Cullyism, Curialism, Cynicism, Cyphonism, Daltonism, Dandyism, Darwinianism, Darwinism, Dashism, Deaf-mutism, Decimalism, Deism, Demagogism, Democratism, Demoniacism, Demonianism, Demonism, Denominationalism, Dentalism, Despotism, Determinism, Devilism, Diabolism, Diageotropism, Diaheliotropism, Dialogism, Diamagnetism, Diathermanism, Dichroism, Dichromatism, Dicrotism, Didacticism, Diglottism, Dilettanteism, Dilettantism, Dimorphism, Dioecism, Diorism, Diplomatism, Dissenterism, Ditheism, Docetism, Doctrinarianism, Dogmatism, Donatism, Donnism, Doricism, Dorism, Doughfaceism, Dowagerism, Druidism, Dualism, Dynamism, Dynamitism, Ebionitism, Ecclesiasticism, Eclecticism, Ectorganism, Egoism, Egomism, Egotheism, Egotism, Eleaticism, Electicism, Electro-magnetism, Electro-vitalism, Elementalism, Embolism, Emotionalism, Empiricism, Encyclopedism, Englishism, Entorganism, Epicureanism, Epicurism, Epilogism, Epipolism, Episcopalianism, Episyllogism, Equestrianism, Erastianism, Eremitism, Erethism, Eroticism, Erythrism, Erythrochroism, Esotericism, Essenism, Etacism, Etherealism, Ethnicism, Euhemerism, Eunuchism, Euphemism, Euphonism, Euphuism, Eutychianism, Evangelicalism, Evangelicism, Evangelism, Evolutionism, Exclusionism, Exclusivism, Exorcism, Exoticism, Experientialism, Externalism, Falsism, Familism, Fanaticism, Fanatism, Fantasticism, Fatalism, Favoritism, Federalism, Fenianism, feudalism, Filibusterism, Fissiparism, Flunlyism, Fogyism, Foreignism, formalism, Fossilism, Fourierism, Frenchism, Frivolism, futurism, Galenism, Gallicanism, Gallicism, Galvanotropism, Gamomorphism, Gargarism, Genevanism, Gentilism, Geomalism, Geophagism, Geotropism, Germanism, Geusdism, Gipsyism, Gladiatorism, Gnosticism, Gongorism, Gonochorism, Gormandism, Gothicism, Grammarianism, Grammaticism, Grangerism, Grecism, Grundyism, Gutturalism, Gynandromorphism, Gypsyism, heathenism, Hebraism. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ICONISM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: miscoin.

Words within the letters "c-i-i-m-n-o-s"

-1 letter: ionics.

-2 letters: cions, coins, icons, imino, ionic, minis, osmic, scion, sonic.

-3 letters: cion, coin, coni, cons, icon, ions, mini, miso, mocs, mons, nims, nisi, noms.

-4 letters: cis, con, cos, ins, ion, ism, mis, moc, mon, mos, nim, nom, nos, oms, ons, sic, sim, sin, som, son.

-5 letters: in, is, mi, mo, no, om, on, os, si, so.

 Words containing the letters "c-i-i-m-n-o-s"
 

+1 letter: isonomic, miscoins, monistic, nomistic, simoniac.

 

+2 letters: bionomics, criminous, dominicks, incomings, insomniac, miscoding, miscoined, misogynic, oncidiums, semitonic, simoniacs, viomycins.

 

+3 letters: acrimonies, chamoising, cinchonism, commission, comprising, crimsoning, disconfirm, gnosticism, impactions, insomniacs, isoenzymic, magnificos, microminis, micronizes, midsection, minicourse, minischool, miscaption, miscoining, miscooking, miscopying, mitomycins, morticians, mosaicking, omniscient, organicism, organismic, simoniacal, zirconiums.

 

+4 letters: acrimonious, agnosticism, chironomids, chrismation, cinchonisms, coatimundis, colonialism, columnistic, commissions, communising, communistic, communities, compositing, composition, cosmetician, creationism, customising, customizing, decimations, dicoumarins, dipsomaniac, disconfirms, dominickers, economising, emaciations, encomiastic, gnosticisms, harmonicist, impecunious, impotencies, imprecision, informatics, isochronism, lincomycins, magnificoes, mastication, medications, microclines, microinches, midsections, millisecond, minicourses, minischools, misbecoming, miscaptions, miscitation, miscoloring, misconceive, miscounting, miscreation, misfocusing, misfunction, mislocating, mislocation, mistouching, modernistic, monasticism, neuroticism, nonmusician, omniscience, organicisms, phonemicist, romanticise, romanticism, romanticist, sardonicism, seminomadic, semiotician, thermionics, unmalicious.

 

+5 letters: acclimations, actinomycins, agnosticisms, amoxicillins, amoxycillins, antimitotics, biomechanics, biomedicines, californiums, cementitious, championship, chemisorbing, chiromancies, chrismations, circumcision, circumfusion, collimations, colonialisms, combinations, comminations, comminutions, commissioned, commissioner, competitions, compilations, compliancies, compositions, compromising, condominiums, conformities, connubialism, cosmeticians, craniotomies, creationisms, criminations, culminations, decommission, dipsomaniacs, disclamation, discomfiting, discommoding, discomposing, disconfirmed, diseconomies, dominatrices, encrimsoning, factionalism, gastrocnemii, harmonicists, imbrications, implications, importancies, imprecations, imprecisions, incommodious, infomercials, isochronisms, isoenzymatic, lacrimations, locksmithing, machinations, maledictions, mastications, metafictions, metrications, microinjects, microphonics, micturitions, millimicrons, milliseconds, misanthropic, miscaptioned, miscitations, miscomputing, misconceived, misconceiver, misconceives, miscreations, misdirection, miseducation, misfocussing, misfunctions, mislocations, misogynistic, misreckoning, misrecording, mockingbirds, monasticisms, monopolistic, monorchidism, monospecific, monotheistic, mucilaginous, necrophilism, neuroticisms, nominalistic, noncriminals, nonmusicians, omnisciences, omnisciently, onomastician, phonemicists, physiognomic, recommission, reductionism, romanticised, romanticises, romanticisms, romanticists, romanticizes, sanctimonies, sardonicisms, secessionism, sectionalism, semicolonial, semicolonies, semimonastic, semioticians, simoniacally, somnifacient, tensiometric.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ICONISM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 43 4F 4E 49 53 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    -.-.    ---    -.    ..    ...    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01000011 01001111 01001110 01001001 01010011 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#67 &#79 &#78 &#73 &#83 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0043 004F 004E 0049 0053 004D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

43374948435347

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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