magnetism

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: mägnĕtĭzm, IPA: /ˈmæɡ.nəˌtɪz.əm/, X-SAMPA: /"m{g.n@%tIz.@m/
• Hyphenation: mag‧ne‧tism

Etymology

magnet + -ism

Noun

magnetism (uncountable)

1. The property of being magnetic
2. The science which treats of magnetic phenomena.
3. Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Derived terms

• electromagnetism

Translations

the property of being magnetic

• Asturian: magnetismu
• Catalan: magnetisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 磁性 (cmn) (cíxìng) (property), 磁學 (cmn), 磁学 (cmn) (cíxué) (science)

• Czech: magnetismus (cs) m
• Danish: magnetisme (da) c
• Dutch: magnetisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: magnetismo (eo)
• Faroese: magnetisma (fo) f
• Finnish: magnetismi (fi)
• French: magnétisme (fr) m
• Galician: magnetismo
• German: Magnetismus (de) m
• Greek: μαγνητισμός (el) (magnitismós) m 
• Hebrew: מגנטיות (he) (magnitism) m
• Indonesian: magnetik

• Italian: magnetismo (it) m
• Japanese: 磁気 (ja) (じき, jiki), 磁性 (ja) (じせい, jisei)
• Korean: 자기 (ko) (jagi) (磁氣 (ko))
• Latin: magnetismus, magnētismus
• Norwegian: magnetisme (no) m
• Portuguese: magnetismo (pt) m
• Romanian: magnetism (ro) n
• Russian: магнетизм (ru) (magnetísm) m 
• Sardinian: magnetismu m
• Serbo-Croatian: magnetizam (sh) m, магнетизам (sh) m
• Sicilian: magnetismu m
• Slovak: magnetizmus (sk) m
• Slovene: magnetizem (sl) m
• Spanish: magnetismo (es) m
• Swedish: magnetism (sv) c
• Telugu: అయస్కాంతత్వము (te) (ayaskaaMtatvaMu)

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Swedish

Etymology

magnet +‎ -ism

Noun

magnetism c

1. magnetism

Declension

Declension of magnetism

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	magnetism	magnetismen
genitive	magnetisms	magnetismens

Related terms

• elektromagnetism