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extremism

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Disposition to go to extremes in doctrine or practice; ultraism.

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  • noun extreme ideas or actions

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  • noun any political theory favoring immoderate uncompromising policies

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Examples

  • Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of -evil, " regardless of the content of the issue (the evil is not what you are -extreme" about, but that you are -extreme-i. e., consistent).

    The Virtue of Selfishness Rand, Ayn 1961

  • The use of the word extremism really got rev'd up with the debate over the debt ceiling but I thought it would get put to rest after Senator Marco Rubio took to the Senate floor and mocked President Obama by quoting his words opposing the raising of the debt ceiling when he was a Senator.

    FOXNews.com Greta Van Susteren 2011

  • The term extremism is currently in vogue to describe hate groups and other malcontents listed as such by knowledgeable monitors like SPLC and others in the T2A sidebar, but while we all know what ......

    Talk To Action 2010

  • The term extremism is currently in vogue to describe hate groups and other malcontents listed as such by knowledgeable monitors like SPLC and others in the T2A sidebar, but while we all know what ......

    Talk To Action Talk To Action 2010

  • The term extremism is currently in vogue to describe hate groups and other malcontents listed as such by knowledgeable monitors like SPLC and others in the T2A sidebar, but while we all know what ......

    Talk To Action 2010

  • The term extremism is currently in vogue to describe hate groups and other malcontents listed as such by knowledgeable monitors like SPLC and others in the T2A sidebar, but while we all know what ......

    Talk To Action Talk To Action 2010

  • The term extremism is currently in vogue to describe hate groups and other malcontents listed as such by knowledgeable monitors like SPLC and others in the T2A sidebar, but while we all know what ......

    Talk To Action Talk To Action 2010

  • The term extremism is currently in vogue to describe hate groups and other malcontents listed as such by knowledgeable monitors like SPLC and others in the T2A sidebar, but while we all know what ......

    Talk To Action Talk To Action 2010

  • The term extremism is currently in vogue to describe hate groups and other malcontents listed as such by knowledgeable monitors like SPLC and others in the T2A sidebar, but while we all know what ......

    Talk To Action 2010

  • The irony is that the term extremism is meaningless.

    Capitalism Magazine (CapMag.com) 2009

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synonyms (101)

Words with the same meaning

  1. Fabianism
  2. Jacobinism
  3. New Left
  4. Old Left
  5. abandon
  6. anarchism
  7. anarcho-syndicalism
  8. bigotry
  9. boundlessness
  10. conversion
  11. criminal syndicalism
  12. egregiousness
  13. enormousness
  14. exaggeration
  15. excess
  16. excessiveness
  17. exorbitance
  18. exorbitancy
  19. extravagance
  20. extravagancy
  21. extreme
  22. extreme left
  23. extreme left wing
  24. extremeness
  25. extremes
  26. extremity
  27. fabulousness
  28. factiousness
  29. fanaticalness
  30. fanaticism
  31. giantism
  32. gigantism
  33. gluttony
  34. gradualism
  35. hyperbole
  36. hypertrophy
  37. immoderacy
  38. immoderateness
  39. immoderation
  40. incontinence
  41. inordinacy
  42. inordinance
  43. inordinateness
  44. insurgentism
  45. insurrectionism
  46. intemperance
  47. intemperateness
  48. left-wing extremism
  49. meliorism
  50. monstrousness
  51. mutinousness
  52. nihilism
  53. nimiety
  54. outrageousness
  55. overdevelopment
  56. overenthusiasm
  57. overgreatness
  58. overgrowth
  59. overindulgence
  60. overlargeness
  61. overmuch
  62. overmuchness
  63. overreaction
  64. overreligiousness
  65. overzealousness
  66. perfervidness
  67. progressivism
  68. rabidness
  69. radical reform
  70. radicalism
  71. radicalization
  72. rebelliousness
  73. reform
  74. reformation
  75. reformism
  76. regeneration
  77. revisionism
  78. revolution
  79. revolutionism
  80. riotousness
  81. sans-culotterie
  82. sans-culottism
  83. sedition
  84. seditiousness
  85. subversiveness
  86. syndicalism
  87. too much
  88. too-muchness
  89. traitorousness
  90. transformation
  91. treasonableness
  92. ultraconservatism
  93. ultraism
  94. ultrazealousness
  95. unconscionableness
  96. undueness
  97. unreasonableness
  98. unrestrainedness
  99. utopianism
  100. zealotism
  101. zealotry

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. ideology
  2. political orientation
  3. political theory

same context (25)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. activism
  2. brushfire
  3. communism
  4. constructiveness
  5. extremist
  6. fundamentalism
  7. genocide
  8. gobbledygook
  9. hijack
  10. inrockhampton
  11. jihad
  12. jihadism
  13. nationalism
  14. nonconformity
  15. nutball
  16. nutjob
  17. proselytization
  18. purist
  19. realignment
  20. reevaluation
  21. secularists
  22. separatism
  23. struggle
  24. takeover
  25. totalitarianism

relateds (2)

relateds

  1. extreme
  2. extremist

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