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adventurism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ədˈvɛn(t)ʃəɹɪz(ə)m/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree English adventure Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English adventurism From adventure + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The behavior of an adventurer; risk-taking.
   • In pornographic literature, films, and gadgetry throughout the world […] the SS has become a referent of sexual adventurism. 1980, Susan Sontag, “Fascinating Fascism”, in Under the Sign of Saturn, New York: Vintage, published 1981, pages 101–102:
   • […] she really hadn’t wanted me to think of her as given over wholly to sexual excess and adventurism […] 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 161:
2. (countable, uncountable) The taking of excessive risks (by a government, etc) in political, economic or foreign affairs, often in disregard for established rules or norms.
   • The rejection of foreign adventurism derived partly from an awareness of the dynastic vulnerability of the Bourbon line, partly from the country's economic as well as its military fragility – and partly too from the increasingly evident limitations of France's traditional international allies. 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 133:
   • 1993, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom, Nairobi: EAEP, Part I, Chapter 2, p. 22, Even where they were aware of the devastating effects of imperialism on the subject peoples, as in Conrad’s description of the dying victims of colonial adventurism in Heart of Darkness, they could not free themselves from the Eurocentric basis of their vision.

Forms

Translations (17)

pt aventurismo (policy led by excessive risk taking) · es aventurismo (policy led by excessive risk taking) · fr aventurisme (policy led by excessive risk taking) · ko 모험주의 (policy led by excessive risk taking) · ja 冒険主義 (policy led by excessive risk taking) · ru авантюри́зм (policy led by excessive risk taking) · vi chủ nghĩa mạo hiểm (policy led by excessive risk taking) · tr maceracılık (policy led by excessive risk taking) · es aventurerismo (policy led by excessive risk taking) · uk авантюри́зм (policy led by excessive risk taking) · fi seikkailupolitiikka (policy led by excessive risk taking) · de Abenteuertum (policy led by excessive risk taking) · pl ryzykanctwo (policy led by excessive risk taking) · ka ავანტიურიზმი (policy led by excessive risk taking) · cmn 冒險主義 /冒险主义 (policy led by excessive risk taking) · ro aventurism (policy led by excessive risk taking) · de Abenteurertum (policy led by excessive risk taking)