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soph·ism
 sophism
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- pronunciation:
- sa
fih
z
 m
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
an argument that sounds reasonable but is actually fallacious.
- similar words:
- casuistry, sophistry
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| definition 2: |
deceptive, specious, or fallacious argumentation; sophistry.
- similar words:
- casuistry, sophistry
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| related words: |
fallacy |
adjective + (n.)sophism
established, flimsy, immense, intentional, pictorial, tortuous, ubiquitous, wily
verb + (n.)sophism
credit, object, ruin, tile, wreck
noun + (n.)sophism
brilliance, disguise, equivocation, labyrinth, nomenclature, nonsense, paradox, rhetoric, untruth
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The word sophism
contains the following parts:
soph, -sophy
Greek
root
that means wise, wisdom
  Example words:
philosopher, philosophical, philosophy, sophism, sophist, sophistic, sophisticated, sophistry, sophomore, sophomoric, theosophy
-ism1
Greek
noun-forming suffix
that means act, process, state, practice, or instance of
More about this word part:
The suffix -ism1 attaches to Greek roots to form nouns which usually have a corresponding verb ending in "-ize, -ise". See also -ism2.
Example words:
anachronism, aphorism, archaism, autism, baptism, criticism, dwarfism, embolism, euphemism, heliotropism, heroism, hypnotism, magnetism, mechanism, metabolism, neologism, phototropism, plagiarism, sophism, syllogism, tropism
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