radicalism
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
radicalism
n 1: the political orientation of those who favor revolutionary
change in government and society
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Radicalism \Rad"i*cal*ism\ (r[a^]d"[i^]*kal*[i^]z'm), n. [Cf. F.
radicalisme.]
The quality or state of being radical; specifically, the
doctrines or principles of radicals in politics or social
reform.
[1913 Webster]
Radicalism means root work; the uprooting of all
falsehoods and abuses. --F. W.
Robertson.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "radicalism":
Fabianism, Jacobinism, New Left, Old Left, abandon, anarchism,
anarcho-syndicalism, boundlessness, conversion,
criminal syndicalism, egregiousness, enormousness, exaggeration,
excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance,
extravagancy, extreme, extreme left, extreme left wing, extremes,
extremism, extremity, fabulousness, giantism, gigantism, gluttony,
gradualism, hyperbole, hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness,
immoderation, incontinence, inordinacy, inordinance,
inordinateness, intemperance, intemperateness, left-wing extremism,
meliorism, monstrousness, nihilism, nimiety, outrageousness,
overdevelopment, overgreatness, overgrowth, overindulgence,
overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness, progressivism,
radical reform, radicalization, reform, reformation, reformism,
regeneration, revisionism, revolution, revolutionism,
sans-culotterie, sans-culottism, syndicalism, too much,
too-muchness, transformation, ultraconservatism, ultraism,
unconscionableness, undueness, unreasonableness, unrestrainedness,
utopianism
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