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adventurism

noun
/ədˈvɛn(t)ʃəɹɪz(ə)m/UK

Etymology

From adventure + -ism.

  1. derived from adventūrus
  2. derived from *adventūra✻
  3. derived from aventure
  4. inherited from aventure
  5. suffixed as adventurism — “adventure + -ism”

Definitions

  1. Political strategy focusing on individual actions such as assassinating political enemies.

  2. The behavior of an adventurer

    The behavior of an adventurer; risk-taking.

    • […] she really hadn’t wanted me to think of her as given over wholly to sexual excess and adventurism […]
    • In pornographic literature, films, and gadgetry throughout the world […] the SS has become a referent of sexual adventurism.

  3. The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign…

    The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for adventurism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA