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adventurisms

adventurisms is the plural of adventurism.

Meaning of adventurism

Noun

adventurism (countable and uncountable, plural adventurisms)

  1. The behavior of an adventurer; risk-taking.
    • […] she really hadn’t wanted me to think of her as given over wholly to sexual excess and adventurism […]1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 161
  2. The taking of excessive risks (by a government, etc) in political, economic or foreign affairs, often in disregard for established rules or norms.
    • Even where they were aware of the devastating effects of imperialism on the subject peoples, as in Conrad’s description of the dying victims of colonial adventurism in Heart of Darkness, they could not free themselves from the Eurocentric basis of their vision.1993, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom, Nairobi: EAEP, Part I, Chapter 2, p. 22

Questions about adventurisms

What is adventurisms the plural of?
Adventurisms is the plural of adventurism.

Words near adventurisms in the dictionary

  1. adventurines
  2. adventuring
  3. adventurings
  4. adventurish
  5. adventurism
  6. adventurisms
  7. adventurist
  8. adventuristic
  9. adventurists
  10. adventurize
  11. adventurized

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