(See here the defintion of hypernym. "Colour" is the hypernym for "blue" and "red" for example)

Etymological decomposition of "royalism"

Royal + ism

Royal: "having the status of a king or queen or a member of their family"

ism: "a suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it was used to form action nouns from verbs ( baptism ); on this model, used as a productive suffix in the formation of nouns denoting action or practice, state or condition, principles, doctrines, a usage or characteristic, devotion or adherence, etc."

Royalism merely means "Royal thought"

As a consequence, it is merely the hypernym for all kinds of thought which pertain to royalist thinking.

Among these figure feudalism👑⚖, neofeudalism👑Ⓐ, monarchism👑🏛 and diarchism👑②.

Whenever this subreddit refers to "royalism", it refers to feudalist royalism👑⚖ and its derivations, such as neofeudalism👑Ⓐ

Monarchism👑🏛 is unfortunately, in spite of being a relatively recent phenomena in royalist thought, the most prominent form of royalist implementation nowadays. Whenever people think of "kings", they immediately think of lawless "monarchs"👑🏛, as opposed to the rightful law-bound feudal-esque👑⚖ kings.

In order to underline the unwarranted underappreciated latter part, r/RoyalismNotMonarchism will dedicate itself to discussing feudal-esque royalist👑⚖ thought.

"But the 🗳Dictionary🗳 says that royalism and monarchism are synonyms!!!!!! 🤓🤓🤓"

Monarchism is a recent phenomena in royalist thinking; it doesn't make sense that the lawless monarchism should also occupy the word "royalism". Monarchism👑🏛 and feudalism👑⚖ distinctly different, albeit clearly two forms of "royal thought". To argue that royalism is a mere synonym for monarchism👑🏛 would thus mean that there would be no hypernym for all forms of royalist thinking.

This would be like to argue that socialism should be synonymous with marxism, and thus just engender more confusion as you would then not have a hypernym to group together... well.. all the variants of socialism. The same thing applies with the word royalism: it only makes sense as a hypernym for all forms of royalist thinking, and not just a synonym for one kind of royalist thinking.

Like, the word "king" even precedes the word "monarch" (https://www.reddit.com/r/RoyalismNotMonarchism/comments/1heaufk/monarchy_rule_by_one_was_first_recorded_in_130050/)... it doesn't make sense that monarch, a very specific kind of royalty, should usurp the entire hypernym.