aspheterism

Meaning

Noun

• The view that all property should be in common ownership and that no individual should benefit from private possession.

Origin

• From Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- + σφέτερος (from σφεῖς + -τερος) -ism, influenced by σφετερισμός. The word was coined by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) in a 1794 letter to fellow poet Robert Southey (1774–1843).