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主义

zhǔ yì
HSK 3.0 Level 7

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Definitions

  1. 1. -ism
  2. 2. ideology

Words Containing 主义

新古典主义
xīn gǔ diǎn zhǔ yì

neoclassicism

无政府主义
wú zhèng fǔ zhǔ yì

anarchism

冒险主义
mào xiǎn zhǔ yì

adventurism (a left-wing error against Mao's line during the 1930s)

个人主义
gè rén zhǔ yì

individualism

朝鲜民主主义人民共和国
cháo xiǎn mín zhǔ zhǔ yì rén mín gòng hé guó

People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea)

连结主义
lián jié zhǔ yì

connectionism

超验主义
chāo yàn zhǔ yì

transcendentalism

极权主义
jí quán zhǔ yì

totalitarianism

大男人主义
dà nán rén zhǔ yì

male chauvinism

社会主义者
shè huì zhǔ yì zhě

socialist

大男子主义
dà nán zǐ zhǔ yì

male chauvinism

改良主义
gǎi liáng zhǔ yì

reformism (i.e. favoring gradual change as opposed to revolution)

爱国主义
ài guó zhǔ yì

patriotism

实力主义
shí lì zhǔ yì

meritocracy

小团体主义
xiǎo tuán tǐ zhǔ yì

cliquism

超越主义
chāo yuè zhǔ yì

transcendentalism

行为主义
xíng wéi zhǔ yì

behaviorism

理性主义
lǐ xìng zhǔ yì

rationalism

马克思主义
mǎ kè sī zhǔ yì

Marxism

纳粹主义
nà cuì zhǔ yì

Nazism

实证主义
shí zhèng zhǔ yì

positivism

民族主义
mín zú zhǔ yì

nationalism

分离主义
fēn lí zhǔ yì

separatism

恐怖主义者
kǒng bù zhǔ yì zhě

terrorist

裸体主义
luǒ tǐ zhǔ yì

nudism

启蒙主义
qǐ méng zhǔ yì

Enlightenment (philosophy)

社会达尔文主义
shè huì dá ěr wén zhǔ yì

social Darwinism

现实主义
xiàn shí zhǔ yì

realism

实利主义
shí lì zhǔ yì

utilitarianism

大男子主义者
dà nán zǐ zhǔ yì zhě

male chauvinist

本位主义
běn wèi zhǔ yì

selfish departmentalism

门罗主义
mén luó zhǔ yì

Monroe Doctrine

苏维埃社会主义共和国联盟
sū wéi āi shè huì zhǔ yì gòng hé guó lián méng

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), 1922-1991

新民主主义革命
xīn mín zhǔ zhǔ yì gé mìng

(Maoism) New Democracy (aka New Democratic Revolution)

分产主义
fēn chǎn zhǔ yì

(economics) distributism

沙文主义
shā wén zhǔ yì

chauvinism

实用主义
shí yòng zhǔ yì

pragmatism

民主主义
mín zhǔ zhǔ yì

democracy

享乐主义
xiǎng lè zhǔ yì

hedonism

行动主义
xíng dòng zhǔ yì

activism

社会主义
shè huì zhǔ yì

socialism

民粹主义
mín cuì zhǔ yì

populism

客观主义
kè guān zhǔ yì

objectivist philosophy

异性恋主义
yì xìng liàn zhǔ yì

heterosexism

封建主义
fēng jiàn zhǔ yì

feudalism

折衷主义
zhé zhōng zhǔ yì

eclecticism

环保主义
huán bǎo zhǔ yì

environmentalism

反犹太主义
fǎn yóu tài zhǔ yì

antisemitism

教条主义
jiào tiáo zhǔ yì

dogmatism

本本主义
běn běn zhǔ yì

book worship

唯物主义
wéi wù zhǔ yì

materialism, philosophical doctrine that physical matter is the whole of reality

不抵抗主义
bù dǐ kàng zhǔ yì

policy of nonresistance

结构主义
jié gòu zhǔ yì

structuralism

保守主义
bǎo shǒu zhǔ yì

conservatism

重商主义
zhòng shāng zhǔ yì

mercantilism

多元文化主义
duō yuán wén huà zhǔ yì

multiculturalism

斯多葛主义
sī duō gě zhǔ yì

Stoicism

地方主义
dì fāng zhǔ yì

regionalism

资本主义
zī běn zhǔ yì

capitalism

民族社会主义
mín zú shè huì zhǔ yì

national socialism

马克思列宁主义
mǎ kè sī liè níng zhǔ yì

Marxism-Leninism

超现实主义
chāo xiàn shí zhǔ yì

surrealism

机会主义
jī huì zhǔ yì

opportunism

新民主主义论
xīn mín zhǔ zhǔ yì lùn

On New Democracy (1940), by Mao Zedong

集体主义
jí tǐ zhǔ yì

collectivism

女性主义
nǚ xìng zhǔ yì

feminism

新民主主义
xīn mín zhǔ zhǔ yì

New Democracy

法西斯主义
fǎ xī sī zhǔ yì

fascism

帝国主义
dì guó zhǔ yì

imperialism

神秘主义
shén mì zhǔ yì

mysticism

民权主义
mín quán zhǔ yì

democracy

共产主义
gòng chǎn zhǔ yì

communism

修正主义
xiū zhèng zhǔ yì

revisionism

种族主义
zhǒng zú zhǔ yì

racism

种族中心主义
zhǒng zú zhōng xīn zhǔ yì

ethnocentrism

客观唯心主义
kè guān wéi xīn zhǔ yì

objective idealism (in Hegel's philosophy)

国际共产主义运动
guó jì gòng chǎn zhǔ yì yùn dòng

Comintern

经验主义
jīng yàn zhǔ yì

empiricism

犹太复国主义者
yóu tài fù guó zhǔ yì zhě

a Zionist

空想社会主义
kōng xiǎng shè huì zhǔ yì

utopian socialism

后现代主义
hòu xiàn dài zhǔ yì

postmodernism

中国中心主义
zhōng guó zhōng xīn zhǔ yì

Sinocentrism

科学主义
kē xué zhǔ yì

scientism

军国主义
jūn guó zhǔ yì

militarism

环境行动主义
huán jìng xíng dòng zhǔ yì

environmentalism

虔信主义
qián xìn zhǔ yì

fideism

人道主义
rén dào zhǔ yì

humanism

斯大林主义
sī dà lín zhǔ yì

Stalinism

大汉族主义
dà hàn zú zhǔ yì

Greater Han nationalism

印象主义
yìn xiàng zhǔ yì

impressionism

享乐主义者
xiǎng lè zhǔ yì zhě

hedonist

单边主义
dān biān zhǔ yì

unilateralism

浪漫主义
làng màn zhǔ yì

romanticism

天体主义
tiān tǐ zhǔ yì

nudism

中国共产主义青年团
zhōng guó gòng chǎn zhǔ yì qīng nián tuán

Communist Youth League of China

社会民主主义
shè huì mín zhǔ zhǔ yì

social democracy

不承认主义
bù chéng rèn zhǔ yì

policy of non-recognition

宗派主义
zōng pài zhǔ yì

sectarianism

利他主义
lì tā zhǔ yì

altruism

禁欲主义
jìn yù zhǔ yì

asceticism

象征主义
xiàng zhēng zhǔ yì

symbolism

犹太复国主义
yóu tài fù guó zhǔ yì

Zionism

素食主义
sù shí zhǔ yì

vegetarianism

新殖民主义
xīn zhí mín zhǔ yì

neocolonialism

绥靖主义
suí jìng zhǔ yì

appeasement

自由主义
zì yóu zhǔ yì

liberalism

男性主义
nán xìng zhǔ yì

masculism

犬儒主义
quǎn rú zhǔ yì

cynicism

历史唯物主义
lì shǐ wéi wù zhǔ yì

historical materialism (Marx's theory of history)

左倾机会主义
zuǒ qīng jī huì zhǔ yì

leftist opportunism (blamed for failures of Chinese communists from 1927)

环保主义者
huán bǎo zhǔ yì zhě

environmentalist

纯素食主义
chún sù shí zhǔ yì

veganism, a diet consisting solely of plant products

种族主义者
zhǒng zú zhǔ yì zhě

racist (person)

利己主义
lì jǐ zhǔ yì

egoism

专制主义
zhuān zhì zhǔ yì

absolutism

国家社会主义
guó jiā shè huì zhǔ yì

national socialism

民生主义
mín shēng zhǔ yì

principle of people's livelihood, the third of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning redistribution of wealth, self-sufficiency and internal trade)

自由意志主义
zì yóu yì zhì zhǔ yì

libertarianism

社会主义教育运动
shè huì zhǔ yì jiào yù yùn dòng

Socialist Education Movement (1963-66), formal name of the Four Cleanups Movement 四清運動|四清运动[sì qīng yùn dòng]

毛泽东主义
máo zé dōng zhǔ yì

Maoism

卖国主义
mài guó zhǔ yì

treason

列宁主义
liè níng zhǔ yì

Leninism

主观主义
zhǔ guān zhǔ yì

subjectivism

霸权主义
bà quán zhǔ yì

hegemonism

形式主义
xíng shì zhǔ yì

Formalism (art)

马列主义
mǎ liè zhǔ yì

Marxism-Leninism

唯心主义
wéi xīn zhǔ yì

philosophy of idealism, the doctrine that external reality is a product of consciousness

共产主义青年团
gòng chǎn zhǔ yì qīng nián tuán

the Communist Youth League

平均主义
píng jūn zhǔ yì

egalitarianism

极端主义
jí duān zhǔ yì

extremism

普鲁东主义
pǔ lǔ dōng zhǔ yì

Proudhonism, 19th century socialist theory

分裂主义
fēn liè zhǔ yì

separatism

女权主义
nǚ quán zhǔ yì

feminism

宪政主义
xiàn zhèng zhǔ yì

constitutionalism

拜金主义
bài jīn zhǔ yì

money worship

进步主义
jìn bù zhǔ yì

progressivism

民族主义情绪
mín zú zhǔ yì qíng xù

nationalist feelings

完美主义者
wán měi zhǔ yì zhě

perfectionist

外貌主义
wài mào zhǔ yì

lookism

保环主义
bǎo huán zhǔ yì

environmentalism

功利主义
gōng lì zhǔ yì

utilitarianism

民主主义者
mín zhǔ zhǔ yì zhě

democrats

苏非主义
sū fēi zhǔ yì

Sufism (Islamic mystic tradition)

理想主义
lǐ xiǎng zhǔ yì

idealism

存在主义
cún zài zhǔ yì

existentialism

达尔文主义
dá ěr wén zhǔ yì

Darwinism

中国特色社会主义
zhōng guó tè sè shè huì zhǔ yì

socialism with Chinese characteristics, phrase introduced by the CCP in 1986 to refer to its ideological model, embracing the economic reforms of the post-Mao era

激进主义
jī jìn zhǔ yì

radicalism

国家主义
guó jiā zhǔ yì

nationalism

国际主义
guó jì zhǔ yì

internationalism

生物恐怖主义
shēng wù kǒng bù zhǔ yì

bioterrorism

新柏拉图主义
xīn bó lā tú zhǔ yì

neo-Platonism (philosophical system combining Platonism with mysticism)

三民主义
sān mín zhǔ yì

Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People (late 1890s)

辩证唯物主义
biàn zhèng wéi wù zhǔ yì

dialectical materialism

自然主义
zì rán zhǔ yì

naturalism (philosophy)

人文主义
rén wén zhǔ yì

humanism

自由素食主义
zì yóu sù shí zhǔ yì

Freeganism

贸易保护主义
mào yì bǎo hù zhǔ yì

trade protectionism

旧民主主义革命
jiù mín zhǔ zhǔ yì gé mìng

bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)

联结主义
lián jié zhǔ yì

connectionism

拿来主义
ná lái zhǔ yì

the attitude of mechanically borrowing (ideas etc)

失败主义
shī bài zhǔ yì

defeatism

乐观主义
lè guān zhǔ yì

optimism

平等主义
píng děng zhǔ yì

egalitarianism

货币主义
huò bì zhǔ yì

monetarism

虚无主义
xū wú zhǔ yì

nihilism

极简主义
jí jiǎn zhǔ yì

minimalism

恐怖主义
kǒng bù zhǔ yì

terrorism

裸体主义者
luǒ tǐ zhǔ yì zhě

nudist

毛主义
máo zhǔ yì

Maoism

未来主义
wèi lái zhǔ yì

Futurism (artistic and social movement of the 20th century)

官僚主义
guān liáo zhǔ yì

bureaucracy

巴枯宁主义
bā kū níng zhǔ yì

Bakuninism, a 19th century socialist theory

裙带资本主义
qún dài zī běn zhǔ yì

crony capitalism

排犹主义
pái yóu zhǔ yì

antisemitism

和平主义
hé píng zhǔ yì

pacifism

殖民主义
zhí mín zhǔ yì

colonialism

保护主义
bǎo hù zhǔ yì

protectionism

麦卡锡主义
mài kǎ xī zhǔ yì

McCarthyism

反智主义
fǎn zhì zhǔ yì

anti-intellectualism

文牍主义
wén dú zhǔ yì

red tape