adventurism
/ədˈvɛn(t)ʃəɹɪz(ə)m/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.94 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The taking of excessive risks (by a government, etc) in political, economic or foreign affairs, often in disregard for established rules or norms.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "[…] she really hadn’t wanted me to think of her as given over wholly to sexual excess and adventurism […]"
- "In pornographic literature, films, and gadgetry throughout the world […] the SS has become a referent of sexual adventurism."
- "1993, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom, Nairobi: EAEP, Part I, Chapter 2, p. 22, Even where they were aware of the devastating effects of imperialism on the subject peoples, as in Conrad’s description of the dying victims of colonial adventurism in Heart of Darkness, they could not free themselves from the Eurocentric basis of their vision."
- "The rejection of foreign adventurism derived partly from an awareness of the dynastic vulnerability of the Bourbon line, partly from the country's economic as well as its military fragility – and partly too from the increasingly evident limitations of France's traditional international allies."
Etymology
Etymology tree English adventure Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English adventurism From adventure + -ism.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ədˈvɛn(t)ʃəɹɪz(ə)m/