 The term "ietsism" is becoming more widely used in Europe, as opposed to the phrase 'spiritual but not religious' which prevails in North America.The word occurs inter alia in Dutch ("ietsisme"), German ("Ietsismus"), Russian ("итсизм"), Czech ("něcismus"), Spanish (“ietsismo”), Greek (“Ιετσισμός”), West Frisian ("eatsisme"), Ukrainian ("ітсизм") and Belarusian ("іцызм").Ietsism may roughly be described as a belief in an end-in-itself or similar concept, without further assumption as to exactly what object or objects have such a property, like intrinsic aliquidism without further specification.