revisionism
/ɹɪˈvɪʒəˌnɪzəm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.62 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
An evolutionary form of Marxism, abandoning some of its original principles.
Countable; Derogatory; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Tories spent last week boldly whistling their unique brand of the kind of historical revisionism that has played a major part in getting us here."
- "As for Jones’s performance as Mandy Cohen, it united two leading facets of the funnyman’s repertoire: his fondness for female impersonation, and his passion for historical revisionism."
- "Meanwhile, Holocaust survivors are dying every day. There are few left to protest the new revisionism."
- "Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist and the author of the popular newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist. She argues that we’ve entered a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: “pandemic revisionism.”"
- "For inspiration, they [Orbán’s fellow anti-liberal counterrevolutionaries] look to the Russia of Vladimir Putin, whose national chauvinism, banning of “gender ideology” and “gay propaganda,” and revisionism against the world order fit well with their agenda."
- "Strictly speaking, revisionism was regarded as a theoretical position, but its articulation by Bernstein in the later 1890s was preceded by political tendencies which led to the same direction."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Middle English visioun English vision English revision 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 revisionism From revision + -ism.