aspheterism
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aspheterism
- /əsˈfɛtəˌɹɪz(ə)m/ UK
- /æsˈfɛtəˌɹɪz(ə)m/ US
Rhymes with -ɪzəm
Where it comes from
From Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-, the alpha privative, a suffix forming words having a sense opposite to the word or stem to which it is attached) + σφέτερος (sphéteros, “theirs, their own”) (from σφεῖς (spheîs, “they; themselves”) + -τερος (-teros, suffix forming adjectives expressing some notion of contrast)) + -ism, influenced by σφετερισμός (spheterismós, “usurpation”). The word was coined by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) in a 1794 letter to fellow poet Robert Southey (1774–1843).
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The view that all property should be in common ownership and that no individual should benefit from private possession.
We preached Pantisocracy and Aspheterism everywhere. These, Tom, are two new words, the first signifying the equal government of all, and the other the generalisation of individual property; words well understood in the city of Bristol.
Similar: communism
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title = {aspheterism},
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