"hyphenism" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From hyphen + -ism.",
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          "ref": "1924, Edward F. McSweeney, The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America, page 2:",
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  "word": "hyphenism"
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