English
Etymology
From magnet + -ism.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: mägnĕtĭzm, IPA(key): /ˈmæɡ.nəˌtɪz.əm/
- Hyphenation: mag‧ne‧tism
Noun
magnetism (countable and uncountable, plural magnetisms)
- (physics) The property of being magnetic.
2023 December 27, Mindy Weisberger, “Ancient bricks baked when Nebuchadnezzar II was king absorbed a power surge in Earth’s magnetic field”, in CNN[1]:Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere — an invisible bubble of magnetism generated by the powerful churning of molten metals at Earth’s core.
- (physics) The science which treats of magnetic phenomena.
- Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections.
- Animal magnetism.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 231:Mediums [...] should also realise that it is essential to lead a particularly abstinent life, and to conserve their magnetism.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
the property of being magnetic
- Albanian: magnetizëm (sq) m
- Arabic: مِغْنَاطِيسِيَّة f (miḡnāṭīsiyya), مَغْنَاطِيسِيَّة f (maḡnāṭīsiyya)
- Armenian: մագնիսականություն (hy) (magnisakanutʻyun)
- Asturian: magnetismu
- Azerbaijani: maqnetizm
- Basque: magnetismo (eu)
- Belarusian: магнеты́зм m (mahnjetýzm), магнэты́зм m (mahnetýzm)
- Bengali: চুম্বকত্ব (cumbokotto)
- Bulgarian: магнети́зъм m (magnetízǎm)
- Catalan: magnetisme (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 磁性 (zh) (cíxìng) (property), 磁學 / 磁学 (cíxué) (science)
- Crimean Tatar: mıqnatislik, magnetizm
- Czech: magnetismus (cs) m
- Danish: magnetisme c
- Dutch: magnetisme (nl) n
- Esperanto: magnetismo (eo)
- Estonian: magnetism (et)
- Faroese: magnetisma f
- Finnish: magnetismi (fi)
- French: magnétisme (fr) m
- Galician: magnetismo (gl)
- Georgian: მაგნეტიზმი (magneṭizmi)
- German: Magnetismus (de) m
- Greek: μαγνητισμός (el) m (magnitismós)
- Hebrew: מַגְנֵטִיּוּת (he) f (magnétiut)
- Hindi: चुंबकत्व m (cumbakatva)
- Hungarian: mágnesesség (hu)
- Icelandic: segulmagn n
- Indonesian: magnetik (id)
- Irish: maighnéadas m, adhmainteas m
- Italian: magnetismo (it) m
- Japanese: 磁気 (ja) (じき, jiki), 磁性 (ja) (じせい, jisei)
- Kazakh: магнетизм (magnetizm)
- Korean: 자기(磁氣) (ko) (jagi)
- Kyrgyz: магнетизм (magnetizm)
- Latin: magnētismus m
- Latvian: magnētisms m
- Lithuanian: magnetizmas m
- Macedonian: магнети́зам m (magnetízam)
- Malay: kemagnetan (ms), magnetisme
- Norman: manniétisme m (continental Normandy)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: magnetisme m
- Pashto: مقناطيسيت m (maqnātisyat)
- Persian: مغناطیس (fa) (maġnâtis)
- Portuguese: magnetismo (pt) m
- Romanian: magnetism (ro) n
- Russian: магнети́зм (ru) m (magnetízm)
- Sardinian: magnetismu m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: магнетѝзам m
- Roman: magnetìzam (sh) m
- Sicilian: magnetismu m
- Slovak: magnetizmus m
- Slovene: magnetizem m
- Spanish: magnetismo (es) m
- Swahili: usumaku (sw)
- Swedish: magnetism (sv) c
- Tagalog: kabalnian, balnian
- Telugu: అయస్కాంతత్వము (te) (ayaskāntatvamu)
- Thai: ความเป็นแม่เหล็ก (kwaam-bpen-mɛ̂ɛ-lèk)
- Turkish: manyetizma (tr)
- Turkmen: magnetizm
- Ukrainian: магнети́зм m (mahnetýzm)
- Urdu: مِقناطِیسِیَّت f (miqnātīsiyyat)
- Uzbek: magnetizm (uz)
- Vietnamese: từ tính (vi), tính từ (vi)
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science which treats of magnetic phenomena
power of attraction; power to excite the feelings
- Bulgarian: привлека́телност (bg) f (privlekátelnost), магнети́чност f (magnetíčnost)
- German: Anziehungskraft (de) f
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French magnétisme. By surface analysis, magnet + -ism.
Noun
magnetism n (uncountable)
- magnetism
Declension
Declension of magnetism
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indefinite
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definite
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| nominative-accusative
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magnetism
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magnetismul
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| genitive-dative
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magnetism
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magnetismului
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| vocative
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magnetismule
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Swedish
Etymology
magnet + -ism
Noun
magnetism c
- magnetism
Declension