Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
thomism is a noun meaning "the comprehensive theological doctrine created by Saint Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century and still taught by the Dominicans". It carries one recorded sense.
the comprehensive theological doctrine created by Saint Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century and still taught by the Dominicans
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 thomism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.