inopportunism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A reluctance to take advantage of pragmatic opportunities that present themselves, usually because of ideological or theological purity.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "And I do not believe in the inopportunism of Socialists."
- "Who would risk a schism in a mere question of inopportunism?"
- "When we still had a situation where we had to reckon with revolutionary spasms, we faced what was called the 'inopportunism' of the Left, a tendency that had to be overcome."