Word.ws English Dictionary

tailism

tailism noun: the practice of blindly following popular opinion.

Noun

tailism (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory) The practice of blindly following popular opinion.

Origin of tailism

From tail + -ism.

Questions about tailism

What does tailism mean?
Tailism means the practice of blindly following popular opinion.
What part of speech is tailism?
Tailism is a noun.

Words near tailism in the dictionary

  1. tailing away
  2. tailing down
  3. tailing in
  4. tailing off
  5. tailings
  6. tailism
  7. tailjob
  8. tailjobs
  9. taillage
  10. taillages
  11. taillamp

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tailism (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: “tailism.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tailism. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.