revisionism
/ɹɪˈvɪʒəˌnɪzəm/
revisionism noun: the advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events.
Noun
revisionism (countable and uncountable, plural revisionisms)
- The advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events.
- Tories spent last week boldly whistling their unique brand of the kind of historical revisionism that has played a major part in getting us here.2018 October 8, Anne Perkins, “A Dad’s Army-style Brexit looms. ‘Don’t panic!’”, in The Guardian
- As for Jones’s performance as Mandy Cohen, it united two leading facets of the funnyman’s repertoire: his fondness for female impersonation, and his passion for historical revisionism.2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian
- An evolutionary form of Marxism, abandoning some of its original principles.
- Strictly speaking, revisionism was regarded as a theoretical position, but its articulation by Bernstein in the later 1890s was preceded by political tendencies which led to the same direction.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in...
revisionism meaning in Tamil, Tagalog, Arabic and Malay
revisionism in Tamil
- திரிபியம், திருத்தல்போக்குக் கொள்கை, திருத்தல்வாதம்
revisionism in Tagalog
- advocacy of a revision of some view
- rebisyonismo
- form of Marxism
- rebisyonismo
revisionism in Arabic
- advocacy of a revision of some view
- تَعْدِيلِيَّة taʕdīliyya
revisionism in Malay
- form of Marxism
- revisionisme
More languagesFewer languages
- revisionism in Indonesian
- revisionisme
- revisionism in Persian
- بازبینی bâzbini, تجدیدنظرطلبی tajdid-nazar-talabi
- revisionism in Vietnamese
- chủ nghĩa xét lại
Examples of revisionism in a sentence
- There are few left to protest the new revisionism.2022 January 29, Jan Grabowski, “The New Wave of Holocaust Revisionism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 Jan...
- She argues that we’ve entered a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: “pandemic revisionism.”2023 August 29, Ezra Klein, “It’s Time to Talk About ‘Pandemic Revisionism’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on...
Forms of revisionism
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Origin of revisionism
From revision + -ism.
Words formed from revisionism
Questions about revisionism
- What does revisionism mean?
- Revisionism means the advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events.
- What is revisionism in Tamil?
- Revisionism in Tamil is திரிபியம், திருத்தல்போக்குக் கொள்கை, திருத்தல்வாதம். See Revisionism meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use revisionism in a sentence?
- There are few left to protest the new revisionism.
- What part of speech is revisionism?
- Revisionism is a noun.
- How do you pronounce revisionism?
- Revisionism is pronounced /ɹɪˈvɪʒəˌnɪzəm/.
- What is the plural of revisionism?
- The plural of revisionism is revisionisms.
Words near revisionism in the dictionary
Source and license
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