associatism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A self-regulatory movement in the 1920s in which community members assumed a duty of mutual obligation to support each other.
  2. The worship of, or belief in, various entities associated with the divine.

Word forms

associatism

Etymology

From associate + -ism.

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