revolutionism

[ revuh-looshuh-niz-uhm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the belief or principle that revolution is desirable or necessary:
Revolutionism is a central tenet of Marxism.
the quality of being revolutionary, or radically innovative:
He may be convinced of the revolutionism of his proposals, but they are actually nothing but tired, empty phrases.

First recorded in 1790–1800; revolution ( def ) + -ism ( def )

But the new times dismayed him, and neither principle nor temperament allowed him to follow Revolutionism to its utmost limits.

Revolutionism is spasmodic, but not so long in dying as it used to be.

Thanks to M. Quinton, evolutionism should rather be termed revolutionism.

He was always so proud of it, and of his extreme revolutionism.

Revolutionism was not only, or chiefly, libertinism; and the wonderful modern France has largely disappointed his predictions.

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