pacificism vs ism

pacificism and ism both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pacificism	Yes	No	No	No
ism	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ism is a hypernym of pacificism; that is, ism is a word with a broader meaning than pacificism:

pacificism: the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable
ism: a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

Other hypernyms of pacificism include doctrine, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought.

pacificism (noun)	ism (noun)
the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable	a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration