RADICALISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radicalism mean? 

• RADICALISM (noun)
  The noun RADICALISM has 1 sense:

1. the political orientation of those who favor revolutionary change in government and society

  Familiarity information: RADICALISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RADICALISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The political orientation of those who favor revolutionary change in government and society

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("radicalism" is a kind of...):

ideology; political orientation; political theory (an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "radicalism"):

Jacobinism (the ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror)