Adiaphorism |
Tolerance of an action the Bible does not strictly prohibit. |
Bruxism |
Teeth grinding during sleep. |
Dispensationalism |
Belief in history as a sequence of divine arrangements. |
Eremetism |
Practice of living in seclusion. |
Fortuitism |
The belief that natural adaptations occur by chance, not design. |
Joe Millerism |
The practice of making bad or stale jokes. |
Lipogrammatism |
The practice of creating lipograms: writings that omit all words with a certain letter of the alphabet. |
Mecism |
Abnormal prolongation of a part of the body. |
Mugwumpism |
Acting as a political independent rather than a party member. |
Nice-Nellyism |
Prudishness. |
Oslerism |
The theory that a man is useless after the age of sixty. |
Pantagruelism |
Pejorative term for medicine. |
Patripassianism |
Christian doctrine that God shared the sufferings of Christ. |
Polymastism |
The presence of more than two breasts. |
Psittacism |
Repetitive, mechanical, meaningless speech. |
Rhotacism |
Faulty pronunciation of the letter R. |
Slurvianism |
Slurred speech. |
Theanthropism |
The act of being both God and man. |
Xerophytism |
Characteristics of a plant that can grow in dry conditions. |