supremacism

1. 1.

   the belief that some particular group or race is superior to all others

   “white supremacism”

   Broaderbelief

Other forms of supremacism

plural

supremacisms·

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 supremacism

What does supremacism mean?

supremacism means "the belief that some particular group or race is superior to all others".

How many syllables are in supremacism?

supremacism has 4 syllables: su-pre-ma-cism. The stress falls on "pre".

Is supremacism a common word?

supremacism 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.