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Definition: Voodooism |
VoodooismNoun1. A religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "voodooism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references) |
Etymology: Voodooism \Voo"doo*ism\, noun. [Probably (through Creole French vaudoux negro sorcerer) from French Vaudois Waldensian, because the Waldenses were accused of sorcery.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: VoodooismSynonyms: hoodooism (n), vodoun (n), voodoo (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sorcery | Noun: sorcery; occult art, occult sciences; magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy; demonology, demonomy, demonship; diablerie, bedevilment; witchcraft, witchery; glamor; fetishism, fetichism, feticism; ghost dance, hoodoo; obi, obiism; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism, vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism; od force, odylic force; electrobiology, clairvoyance; spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
voodooism | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "voodooism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αιθιοπική δεισιδαιμονία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | néger varázslatban való hit, néger varázslat alkalmazása, néger mágiában való hit, néger mágia alkalmazása. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | religione vudù. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ブードゥー教 (booby prize, boom, boomerang). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ブードゥーきょう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oodooismvay колдовство (bewitchment, conjuration, enchantment, hoodoo, incantation, magic, medicine, pishogue, sorceries, sorcery, sortilege, voodoo, witchcraft, witchery, wizardry). (various references) voodoo (voodoo). (various references) büyücülük (conjuration, diablerie, magic, myalism, necromancy, sorcery, the black art, witchcraft, witchery, wizardry). (various references) t thuật, phép dùng t thuật để ch i. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "voodooism": voodooisms. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "voodooism" (pronounced 'Voo"doo*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) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-m-o-o-o-o-s-v" | |
-2 letters: voodoos. | |
-3 letters: ovoids, voodoo. | |
-4 letters: dooms, misdo, moods, ovoid, sodom, voids. | |
-5 letters: dims, doms, doom, mids, miso, modi, mods, mood, moos, vims, void. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-m-o-o-o-o-s-v" | |
+1 letter: voodooisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 6F 6F 64 6F 6F 69 73 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- --- --- -.. --- --- .. ... -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01101111 01101111 01100100 01101111 01101111 01101001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V o o d o o i s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 006F 006F 0064 006F 006F 0069 0073 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)568181708181758579 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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