papism

Other forms of papism

plural

papisms·

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 papism

What does papism mean?

papism means "the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in papism?

papism has 2 syllables: pa-pism. The stress falls on "pa".

What is another word for papism?

Close synonyms include Romanism, Roman Catholicism, popery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is papism a common word?

papism 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.