radicalism

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rad=i=cal=ism

CIDE DICTIONARY

radicalism, n. [Cf. F. radicalisme.].

 The quality or state of being radical; specifically, the doctrines or principles of radicals in politics or social reform.  [1913 Webster]
"Radicalism means root work; the uprooting of all falsehoods and abuses."  [1913 Webster]

DEVIL DICTIONARY

radicalism

n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

THESAURUS

radicalism

Fabianism, Jacobinism, New Left, Old Left, abandon, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, boundlessness, conversion, criminal syndicalism, egregiousness, enormousness, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extreme left, extreme left wing, extremes, extremism, extremity, fabulousness, giantism, gigantism, gluttony, gradualism, hyperbole, hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, incontinence, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, intemperance, intemperateness, left-wing extremism, meliorism, monstrousness, nihilism, nimiety, outrageousness, overdevelopment, overgreatness, overgrowth, overindulgence, overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness, progressivism, radical reform, radicalization, reform, reformation, reformism, regeneration, revisionism, revolution, revolutionism, sans-culotterie, sans-culottism, syndicalism, too much, too-muchness, transformation, ultraconservatism, ultraism, unconscionableness, undueness, unreasonableness, unrestrainedness, utopianism