From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ism \Ism\, n. [See ism, above.] A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory. --E. Everett. [1913 Webster]
The world grew light-headed, and forth came a spawn of isms which no man can number. --S. G. Goodrich. Ismaelian
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
-ism \-ism\ [F. -isme, or L. -ismus, Gr. ?.] A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism. [1913 Webster]