any trait, deviating from accepted speech standards, derived from a foreign language
3.
imitation of anything foreign
4.
a foreign quality
Word origin
[1850–55; foreign + -ism]This word is first recorded in the period 1850–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: clear-cut, ethos, headhunting, heavyweight, segue-ism is a suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it was used to form action nounsfrom verbs (baptism). On this model, -ism is used as a productive suffix in the formation of nouns denoting action or practice,state or condition, principles, doctrines, a usage or characteristic, devotion oradherence, etc. (criticism; barbarism; Darwinism; despotism; plagiarism; realism; witticism; intellectualism)