Gandhiism

Also Gan·dhism

[gahn-dee-iz-uhm, gan-]

noun

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

Gandhiism

/ ˈɡænˌdɪzəm, ˈɡændɪˌɪzəm /

noun

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

Other Word Forms

• Gandhiist noun
• Gandhist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Gandhiism¹

First recorded in 1920–25; Gandhi + -ism

Example Sentences

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.

From Project Gutenberg