proselytism

1. 1.

   the practice of proselytizing

   Broaderpersuasion
2. 2.

   the state of being a proselyte; spiritual rebirth resulting from the zeal of crusading advocacy of the gospel

   Broaderconversion

Other forms of proselytism

plural

proselytisms·

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 proselytism

What does proselytism mean?

proselytism means "the practice of proselytizing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in proselytism?

proselytism has 4 syllables: pro-se-ly-tism. The stress falls on "se".

Is proselytism a common word?

proselytism 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.