sufism

1. 1.

   Islamic mysticism

   Broadermysticism

Other forms of sufism

plural

sufisms·

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 sufism

What does sufism mean?

sufism means "Islamic mysticism".

How many syllables are in sufism?

sufism has 2 syllables: su-fism. The stress falls on "su".

Is sufism a common word?

sufism 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.