incrementalism
/ˌɪnkɹəmˈɛntəlˌɪzəm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.72 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We don’t want to scare away our members or provoke a fight with the government. So the only realistic approach is incrementalism. We will campaign, issue by issue, sector by sector, for gradual improvements. […] The problem was never that system change is too big an ask or takes too long. The problem is that incrementalism is too small an ask."
- "And after a summer of extreme heat and wild weather, she evidently worries that incrementalism will not be enough to address a climate crisis that is crying out for revolution."
Etymology
Etymology tree English incremental 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 incrementalism From incremental + -ism.