Gandhiism

American

[gahn-dee-iz-uhm, gan-] / ˈgɑn diˌɪz əm, ˈgæn- /

Also Gandhism

noun

the principles associated with Mohandas Gandhi, especially his principles of noncooperation and passive resistance in gaining political and social reforms.

Gandhiism British

/ ˈɡænˌdɪzəm, ˈɡændɪˌɪzəm /

noun

the political principles of Mahatma Gandhi, esp civil disobedience and passive resistance as means of achieving reform

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Other Word Forms

Gandhiist noun
Gandhist noun

Etymology

Origin of Gandhiism

First recorded in 1920–25; Gandhi + -ism

Example Sentences

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Schell invokes love and Mahatma Gandhi, appealing for a kind of international Gandhiism to replace the system of nuclear-armed nation-states we now have.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is one of the many strange anomalies of Gandhiism that it should have elected to concentrate its wrecking policy on the very universities in which Islam and Hinduism respectively have been conceded a closer preserve than anywhere else for the training of Indian youths in the spirit of the two great national religions of India.

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