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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
eremitism is a noun meaning "monasticism characterized by solitude in which the social dimension of life is sacrificed to the primacy of religious experience". It carries one recorded sense.
monasticism characterized by solitude in which the social dimension of life is sacrificed to the primacy of religious experience
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 eremitism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.