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say it: EL-i-tiz-uhm
elitism is a noun meaning "the attitude that society should be governed by an elite group of individuals". It carries one recorded sense.
the attitude that society should be governed by an elite group of individuals
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for elitism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.