| ADVENTURISM | • adventurism n. The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking. • adventurism n. (Politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs. • ADVENTURISM n. improvisation in the absence or in defiance of accepted plans or principles. |
| AMUSIVENESS | • amusiveness n. The state or quality of being amusive. • AMUSIVENESS n. the state of being amusive. |
| CHAUVINISMS | • chauvinisms n. Plural of chauvinism. • CHAUVINISM n. excessive or blind patriotism. |
| DILUVIALISM | • diluvialism n. The explaining of geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge. • DILUVIALISM n. a belief in Noah's flood. |
| DUUMVIRATES | • duumvirates n. Plural of duumvirate. • DUUMVIRATE n. government or control by two people. |
| FAVOURITISM | • favouritism n. (British spelling) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another. • FAVOURITISM n. the state of having favourites. |
| MENSURATIVE | • mensurative adj. Relating to mensuration or measurement. • MENSURATIVE adj. relating to mensuration, also MENSURATIONAL. |
| MISEVALUATE | • misevaluate v. To evaluate inaccurately or incorrectly. • MISEVALUATE v. to evaluate wrongly. |
| MULTIVALVES | • multivalves n. Plural of multivalve. |
| MULTIVOCALS | • MULTIVOCAL n. a word with many meanings. |
| QUADRIVIUMS | • quadriviums n. Plural of quadrivium. • QUADRIVIUM n. (Latin) a higher division of seven liberal arts studied in the Middle Ages, comprising arithmetic, music, astronomy, geometry. |
| QUADRUMVIRS | • quadrumvirs n. Plural of quadrumvir. • QUADRUMVIR n. a member of a quadrumvirate. |
| SEMIQUAVERS | • semiquavers n. Plural of semiquaver. • SEMIQUAVER n. a 1/16 note in music. |
| STIMULATIVE | • stimulative adj. Having a stimulating effect. • stimulative n. (Obsolete) Something having a stimulating effect; a stimulant, an incentive. • STIMULATIVE adj. serving to stimulate. |
| SURVIVALISM | • survivalism n. A belief, expressed by survivalists, in being prepared to survive disasters and cataclysms including… • SURVIVALISM n. the practice of taking of measures to ensure personal survival. |
| VANGUARDISM | • vanguardism n. (Politics) The strategy whereby an organization (usually a vanguard party) attempts to place itself… • VANGUARDISM n. the condition of being or practice of positioning oneself as or within the vanguard of a movement, esp. political. |
| VASCULIFORM | • vasculiform adj. Vascular in form; shaped like a vessel. • VASCULIFORM adj. shaped like a small vase or flowerpot. |
| VIRTUALISMS | • virtualisms n. Plural of virtualism. • VIRTUALISM n. the doctrine of Christ's virtual presence in the Eucharist. |
| VOLUNTARISM | • voluntarism n. (US) A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism. • voluntarism n. (Philosophy) A doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect. • voluntarism n. (Politics) The political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals… |