Normanism

From Norman +‎ -ism.

Normanism (countable and uncountable, plural Normanisms)

1. (countable, uncountable) A Norman idiom; a custom or expression peculiar to the Normans.
   • 1873, Matthew Arnold, On the Study of Celtic Literature:

     But now we have Germanism enough to make us Philistines, and Normanism enough to make us imperious

2. (uncountable) The (mainstream) belief that Kievan Rus was established by the Varangians.

   Antonym: anti-Normanism

• Normanist

• “Normanism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.