contrarianism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A pattern of stubbornly adopting contrary, nonconforming viewpoints; the beliefs and practices of a contrarian.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Kelly, who specialised in implacable unreason about climate change before his conversion to stubborn contrarianism about various Covid remedies – contrarianism at odds with the views of designated experts including Australia’s chief medical officer – speaks to a constituency the Coalition wants to court: a group of voters tempted to vote for rightwing protest parties rather than the Liberals and the Nationals."
Etymology
Etymology tree English contrary Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English libertarianinflu. English contrarian 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 contrarianism From contrarian + -ism.