[f. SOCIET-Y + -ISM.] Combination in a society or societies.
1894. M. Crofton, in Daily News, 26 Dec., 3/6. It was a real grievance which hatched secret societism in Ireland.
1896. A. Swift Holbrook, in Bibliotheca Sacra, July, 545. As the perversion of individualism is anarchism, so would the perversion of societism appear to be socialism or collectivism.
