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recidivisms

recidivisms is the plural of recidivism.

Meaning of recidivism

Noun

recidivism (countable and uncountable, plural recidivisms)

  1. Committing new offenses after a crime committed in the past.
    • The increase in criminal activity was attributed to recidivism.
  2. Chronic repetition of criminal or other antisocial behavior.
  3. (broadly) Returning to a negative behavior after having stopped it for a period of time.
    • alcohol(ic) recidivism

Questions about recidivisms

What is recidivisms the plural of?
Recidivisms is the plural of recidivism.

Words near recidivisms in the dictionary

  1. recidive
  2. recidived
  3. recidives
  4. recidiving
  5. recidivism
  6. recidivisms
  7. recidivist
  8. recidivistic
  9. recidivistically
  10. recidivists
  11. recidivize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recidivisms (page history and authors); recidivism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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