boomerism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A 19th century movement which campaigned for the extension of the American frontier.
American usage; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Boomerism, then, was the most recent expression of the westering American spirit."
- "Yet if the boosterism of the “dollar decade” had a sounder basis in reality than did the boomerism of the 1880s, there was ballyhoo in generous measure all the way from the Mason-Dixon Line to Florida's Gold Coast."
- "The hyper-masculinity, optimism and enthusiastic boomerism of the American frontier moulded the young Briton's character."
- "So I side with the mystics and think that the mechanists are caught in the boomerism of American hypercapitalism and are simply hawking their wares. In this unreflective boomerism of American hypercapitalism, one has to hype one's project to attract venture capital."
- "А camp of techno-optimists rebuffs A.I. doomerism with old-fashioned libertarian boomerism, insisting that all the hand-wringing about existential risk is a kind of mass hysteria."
- "Be warned against the tendency to build your young lives around anti-boomerism. In the end, it will be you that gets hurt, not the boomers."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Usage
- American usage
- Uncountable