Word.ws English Dictionary

revengism

/ɹɪˈvɛnd͡ʒɪzəm/

revengism noun: a tendency to carry out, or preoccupation with, revenge.

Noun

revengism (uncountable)

  1. A tendency to carry out, or preoccupation with, revenge.

Origin of revengism

From revenge + -ism. Piecewise doublet of revanchism.

Questions about revengism

What does revengism mean?
Revengism means a tendency to carry out, or preoccupation with, revenge.
What part of speech is revengism?
Revengism is a noun.
How do you pronounce revengism?
Revengism is pronounced /ɹɪˈvɛnd͡ʒɪzəm/.

Words near revengism in the dictionary

  1. revenges
  2. revengeth
  3. revenging
  4. revengingly
  5. revengings
  6. revengism
  7. revenooer
  8. revenooers
  9. reventilate
  10. reventilated
  11. reventilates

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: revengism (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “revengism.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/revengism. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.