revolutionism

[ revuh-looshuh-niz-uhm ]

noun

1. the belief or principle that revolution is desirable or necessary:

   Revolutionism is a central tenet of Marxism.

2. the quality of being revolutionary, or radically innovative:

   He may be convinced of the revolutionism of his proposals, but they are actually nothing but tired, empty phrases.

Word History and Origins

Origin of revolutionism¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; revolution ( def ) + -ism ( def )

Example Sentences

But the new times dismayed him, and neither principle nor temperament allowed him to follow Revolutionism to its utmost limits.

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Revolutionism is spasmodic, but not so long in dying as it used to be.

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Thanks to M. Quinton, evolutionism should rather be termed revolutionism.

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He was always so proud of it, and of his extreme revolutionism.

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Revolutionism was not only, or chiefly, libertinism; and the wonderful modern France has largely disappointed his predictions.

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