industrialism

1. 1.

   an economic system built on large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship

   Broadereconomy

Other forms of industrialism

plural

industrialisms·

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.

Questions about industrialism

What does industrialism mean?

industrialism means "an economic system built on large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship".

How many syllables are in industrialism?

industrialism has 5 syllables: in-du-stri-a-lism. The stress falls on "stri".

Is industrialism a common word?

industrialism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.