magnetism

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Wikipedia

Etymology

magnet +‎ -ism

Pronunciation

(UK) enPR: mägnĕtĭzm, IPA^(key): /ˈmæɡ.nəˌtɪz.əm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Hyphenation: mag‧ne‧tism

Noun

magnetism (countable and uncountable, plural magnetisms)

(physics) The property of being magnetic.
(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

(property of being magnetic): magneticness

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) (mağnâtis)
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)

science which treats of magnetic phenomena

Bulgarian: магнети́зъм m (magnetízǎm)
German: Magnetismus (de) m

power of attraction; power to excite the feelings

Bulgarian: привлека́телност (bg) f (privlekátelnost), магнети́чност f (magnetíčnost)
German: Anziehungskraft (de) f

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French magnétisme. By surface analysis, magnet +‎ -ism.

Noun

magnetism n (uncountable)

magnetism

Declension

declension of magnetism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) magnetism	magnetismul
genitive/dative	(unui) magnetism	magnetismului
vocative	magnetismule

Swedish

Etymology

magnet +‎ -ism

Noun

magnetism c

magnetism

Declension

Declension of magnetism
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	magnetism	magnetismen	—	—
Genitive	magnetisms	magnetismens	—	—

Related terms

elektromagnetism