Cŏm'mu-nĭsm, n.

n. [Fr. communisme, from commun, common. q. v.] The reorganizing of society, or the doctrine that it should be reorganized, by regulating property, industry, and the sources of livelihood, and also the domestic relations and social morals of mankind; socialism; especially the doctrine of a community of property, or the negation of individual rights in property. J. H. Burton.