Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

collapsism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: col-lap-sism
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The belief that a system or entity will collapse.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Collapsism — the view that the North will fall quickly, much like East Germany — and gradualism — exactly the opposite — represent […]"
"Yet even in Grossman's time, at least one radical voice challenged his collapsism. Council Communist Anton Pannekoek […] charged Grossman with citing Marx's writings on capitalism's periodic crises to suggest the latter believed in the notion of a collapse from its limits."

Etymology

From collapse + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: collapse

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does collapsism mean?: The belief that a system or entity will collapse.
Where does collapsism come from?: From collapse + -ism.

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