partyism

American  

[pahr-tee-iz-uhm] / ˈpɑr tiˌɪz əm /

noun

1. adherence to a political party or organization.

2. the organization of political affairs into parties; the political system of a state, region, etc. (often used in combination).

   Two-partyism was never significant in continental politics.

---

Other Word Forms

• partyist noun

Etymology

Origin of partyism

First recorded in 1835–45; party + -ism

Example Sentences

To a debate full of inelegant coinages — “popularism,” “viralism” — let me, with apologies, add one more: partyism.

From New York Times

Last week, in the Times, David Brooks diagnosed and decried a newish form of prejudice known as “partyism.”

From The New Yorker

This year in Kansas, voters have a chance to express their own feelings about partyism thanks to Greg Orman, a private-equity executive who is running for the Senate as an independent.

From The New Yorker

In Brooks’s column, he hastened to explain that he wasn’t opposed to political judgment, per se—as he sees it, part of the problem with partyism is that it obscures finer, more nuanced political appraisals.

From The New Yorker

Meanwhile, as with a train wreck, it can be hard to look away from the phoned-in drivel spouted by Dowd, the Times’ armchair psychoanalyst of political personalities, and Brooks, the paper’s pop sociologist and in-house expert on made-up phenomena like the scourge of “partyism.”

From Salon