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say it: PEE-ti-zuhm
pietism is a noun meaning "17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion". It is pronounced /ˈpitɪzəm/ — PEE-ti-zuhm. It carries 2 recorded senses.
17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion
Germany
exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal
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 pietism 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.