different between meism vs seism

English

Etymology

me +? -ism

Noun

meism (usually uncountable, plural meisms)

1. (colloquial) Egotism; a focus on, or obsession with, oneself.
   • 2011, Konrad McKane, Alkaya: The Legend of Empyro, p. 14:

     They teach that everyone is a separate entity, and you should look out for number one, creating a selfish meism society.

   • 2005, Christopher McEnroe, It's Only the Enemy Screaming, p. 119:

     The new hippies, most of them, were just people who didn't buy into the rampant meism we were fed as children and teenagers.

   • 2001, Beverly Potter, Jeffrey Mishlove, Matt Gouig, The Way of the Ronin: Riding the Waves of Change, p. 174:

     The need to be a good team member and the propensiry toward individualism make the corporation an excellent opportunity for ronin to wrestle with the shadows of meism, opportunism, and glibness.

Translations

• Italian: meismo (it)

Anagrams

• mimes

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (seismós, “shaking; earthquake”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?z?m/, /?sa?s?m/

Noun

seism (plural seisms)

1. A shaking of the Earth's surface; an earthquake or tremor.

Related terms

• seismo-

Translations

Anagrams

• Messi, Simes, mises, semis

Romanian

Etymology

From French séisme

Noun

seism n (plural seisme)

1. seism, earthquake

Declension