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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tendency to create alarms, or to be alarmed needlessly; a state of needless alarm; the condition or practice of an alarmist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the act of giving, or tendency to give, needless warnings.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The production of needless alarms.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun needless warnings

Etymologies

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alarm +‎ -ism

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