vishnuism

1. 1.

   worship of Vishnu one of the 3 chief gods of the Hindu pantheon

   SynonymsVaishnavismVaisnavism

   BroaderHinduism

Other forms of vishnuism

plural

vishnuisms·

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 vishnuism

What does vishnuism mean?

vishnuism means "worship of Vishnu one of the 3 chief gods of the Hindu pantheon".

How many syllables are in vishnuism?

vishnuism has 3 syllables: vish-nu-ism. The stress falls on "vish".

What is another word for vishnuism?

Close synonyms include Vaishnavism, Vaisnavism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vishnuism a common word?

vishnuism 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.