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ancestorism

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree English ancestor Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English ancestorism From ancestor + -ism. Compare atavism, whose formation in French (before English borrowed it) had underlying parallel.

  1. derived from borrowed it) had underlying parallel
  2. derived from -ism English ancestorism From ancestor + -ism

Definitions

  1. The emphasis of the importance of one's foremothers, forefathers or lineage

    The emphasis of the importance of one's foremothers, forefathers or lineage: their veneration (in a nonreligious sense).

  2. Ancestor worship.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ancestorism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA