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environmentalism en · NOUN

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Etymology

Etymology tree Middle French environnementbor. English environment English -al English environmental 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 environmentalism From environmental + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A theory that views environment, rather than heredity or culture, as the important factor in the development of an individual or group.
   • The first is that the present work in no sense represents a relapse toward the old environmentalism which believed it could find the causes of culture in environment. 1939, Alfred L. Kroeber, “Objectives”, in Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America, published 1963, page 1:
2. (countable, uncountable) A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.
   • The need for environmentalisms engaged with the commons rather than relegated to the individual consumer or tied to the middle-class principles of private property. 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 196:

Forms

Hyponyms

ecosocialism · ecocapitalism

Relateds

environmentalist · environmental · enviro- · environment · antienvironmentalism

Translations (21)

es ecologismo (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · ru экологи́зм (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · it ambientalismo (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · fr écologisme (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · de Ökologismus (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · hu környezetvédelem (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · pt ambientalismo (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · tr çevrecilik (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · it ecologismo (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · gl ecoloxismo (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · fr environnementalisme (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · ru энвайронментали́зм (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · mk природозаштита (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · ka ინვაირონმენტალიზმი (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · cmn 環境保護主義 /环境保护主义 (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · pt ecologismo (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · es ambientalismo (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · ka ეკოლოგიზმი (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · fi environmentalismi (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · ja 環境主義 (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment) · ro ecologism (ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment)