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scandalism

scandalism noun: the focussing of attention on and publicizing information about scandals.

Noun

scandalism (countable and uncountable, plural scandalisms)

  1. The focussing of attention on and publicizing information about scandals.
    • But in spite of Dow, and all other malicious scandalisms, Fletcher's star was evidently in the ascendant.1858, Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine - Volumes 7-8, page 461
    • This inadequacy would not seem inherent in scandalism of pornography, but rather resulting from a lack of history and field of subjective pornographic criticism.2001, Tom Slattery, Immodest Proposals: Through the Pornographic Looking Glass, →ISBN

Forms of scandalism

pluralscandalisms

Origin of scandalism

From scandal + -ism.

Questions about scandalism

What does scandalism mean?
Scandalism means the focussing of attention on and publicizing information about scandals.
What part of speech is scandalism?
Scandalism is a noun.
What is the plural of scandalism?
The plural of scandalism is scandalisms.

Words near scandalism in the dictionary

  1. scandalised
  2. scandaliser
  3. scandalisers
  4. scandalises
  5. scandalising
  6. scandalism
  7. scandalisms
  8. scandalizable
  9. scandalization
  10. scandalizations
  11. scandalize

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