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eliminationism

eliminationism noun: advocacy of, or a policy of, elimination of a certain group of people.

Noun

eliminationism (uncountable)

  1. Advocacy of, or a policy of, elimination of a certain group of people.
    • Eliminationism is often voiced as crude “jokes,” a sense of humor inevitably predicated on venomous hatred. And such rhetoric—we know as surely as we know that night follows day—eventually begets action, with inevitably tragic results.2016, David Neiwert, Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    annihilationism

Synonyms of eliminationism

Origin of eliminationism

From elimination + -ism. Coined by American author and academic Daniel Goldhagen in 1996.

Questions about eliminationism

What does eliminationism mean?
Eliminationism means advocacy of, or a policy of, elimination of a certain group of people.
What part of speech is eliminationism?
Eliminationism is a noun.

Words near eliminationism in the dictionary

  1. elimination question
  2. elimination questions
  3. elimination reaction
  4. elimination reactions
  5. elimination round
  6. eliminationism
  7. eliminationist
  8. eliminationists
  9. eliminations
  10. eliminative
  11. eliminative behaviorism

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