Meaning of EXTREMISM

Pronunciation:			ik'streemizum
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  any political theory favoring immoderate uncompromising policies
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	See Also:		ideology, political orientation, political theory
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		abandon, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, bigotry, boundlessness, conversion, criminal syndicalism, egregiousness, enormousness, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extreme left, extreme left wing, extremeness, extremes, extremity, Fabianism, fabulousness, factiousness, fanaticalness, fanaticism, giantism, gigantism, gluttony, gradualism, hyperbole, hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, incontinence, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, insurgentism, insurrectionism, intemperance, intemperateness, Jacobinism, left-wing extremism, meliorism, monstrousness, mutinousness, New Left, nihilism, nimiety, Old Left, outrageousness, overdevelopment, overenthusiasm, overgreatness, overgrowth, overindulgence, overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness, overreaction, overreligiousness, overzealousness, perfervidness, progressivism, rabidness, radical reform, radicalism, radicalization, rebelliousness, reform, reformation, reformism, regeneration, revisionism, revolution, revolutionism, riotousness, sans-culotterie, sans-culottism, sedition, seditiousness, subversiveness, syndicalism, too much, too-muchness, traitorousness, transformation, treasonableness, ultraconservatism, ultraism, ultrazealousness, unconscionableness, undueness, unreasonableness, unrestrainedness, utopianism, zealotism, zealotry