English edit

Etymology edit

anything +‎ -ism

Noun edit

anythingism (uncountable)

  1. (rare) A nonspecific belief in anything, or that anything goes.
    • 1871, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Once a week:
      Disbelief — active or passive — Deism, Atheism, Pantheism, anythingism []
    • 1880, The Gospel standard, or Feeble Christian's support:
      In these days of laxity, and anythingism in religion, even those of whom we might hope better things do not appear exercised, with the apostle Paul, to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men.
    • 1972, Albert Glover, The mushroom:
      The feathers I wore were a borrowed invention I did not truly understand, like Buddhism, Taoism, Tantrism, anythingism []