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struggleism

struggleism noun: a doctrine or philosophy based around struggle or conflict.

Noun

struggleism (uncountable)

  1. (rare) A doctrine or philosophy based around struggle or conflict.
    • Nationalism, racism and mass struggleism, if you will, began its bloody destructive career.1939, Robert Joseph Cuddihy, George Nauman Shuster, Pope Pius XI and American Public Opinion, page 130
    • The Origin of Species was published in 1859, long after romantic struggleism had become a popular philosophy, and Darwin himself was a thoroughgoing liberal humanist.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 226

Origin of struggleism

From struggle + -ism.

Questions about struggleism

What does struggleism mean?
Struggleism means a doctrine or philosophy based around struggle or conflict.
What part of speech is struggleism?
Struggleism is a noun.

Words near struggleism in the dictionary

  1. struggle sessions
  2. struggle-buggies
  3. struggle-buggy
  4. struggled
  5. struggleful
  6. struggleism
  7. struggleless
  8. struggler
  9. strugglers
  10. struggles
  11. strugglesome

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