Dictionary

revisionism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɹɪˈvɪʒəˌnɪzəm/
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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Middle English visioun English vision English revision 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 revisionism From revision + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events.
   • Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist and the author of the popular newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist. She argues that we’ve entered a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: “pandemic revisionism.” 2023 August 29, Ezra Klein, “It’s Time to Talk About ‘Pandemic Revisionism’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2023:
   • Tories spent last week boldly whistling their unique brand of the kind of historical revisionism that has played a major part in getting us here. 2018 October 8, Anne Perkins, “A Dad’s Army-style Brexit looms. ‘Don’t panic!’”, in The Guardian:
   • Meanwhile, Holocaust survivors are dying every day. There are few left to protest the new revisionism. 2022 January 29, Jan Grabowski, “The New Wave of Holocaust Revisionism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2022:
   • For inspiration, they [Orbán’s fellow anti-liberal counterrevolutionaries] look to the Russia of Vladimir Putin, whose national chauvinism, banning of “gender ideology” and “gay propaganda,” and revisionism against the world order fit well with their agenda. 2025 March 19, Arash Azizi, “A Battle for the Soul of the West”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2025:
   • As for Jones’s performance as Mandy Cohen, it united two leading facets of the funnyman’s repertoire: his fondness for female impersonation, and his passion for historical revisionism. 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian:
2. (Marxism, countable, derogatory, often, uncountable) An evolutionary form of Marxism, abandoning some of its original principles.
   • Strictly speaking, revisionism was regarded as a theoretical position, but its articulation by Bernstein in the later 1890s was preceded by political tendencies which led to the same direction. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 98:

Forms

Deriveds

crypto-revisionism · antirevisionism

Relateds

denialism · negationism

Translations (64)

pl rewizjonizm (advocacy of a revision of some view) · es revisionismo (form of Marxism) · lt revizionizmas (advocacy of a revision of some view) · ms revisionisme (form of Marxism) · it revisionismo (advocacy of a revision of some view) · ru ревизиони́зм (advocacy of a revision of some view) · be рэвізіяні́зм (advocacy of a revision of some view) · fa بازبینی (advocacy of a revision of some view) · tg ревизионизм (advocacy of a revision of some view) · da revisionisme (advocacy of a revision of some view) · fi revisionismi (form of Marxism) · sk revizionizmus (advocacy of a revision of some view) · cy adolygiaeth (advocacy of a revision of some view) · id revisionisme (form of Marxism) · sq revizionizëm (advocacy of a revision of some view) · bg ревизиони́зъм (advocacy of a revision of some view) · az revizionizm (advocacy of a revision of some view) · fr révisionnisme (form of Marxism) · vi chủ nghĩa xét lại (advocacy of a revision of some view) · hy ռեւիզիոնիզմ (form of Marxism) · sv revisionism (advocacy of a revision of some view) · uz revizionizm (advocacy of a revision of some view) · kk ревизионизм (advocacy of a revision of some view) · ro revizionism (advocacy of a revision of some view) · cs revizionismus (advocacy of a revision of some view) · fi revisionismi (advocacy of a revision of some view) · fa تجدیدنظرطلبی (advocacy of a revision of some view) · ky ревизионизм (form of Marxism) · tr revizyonizm (advocacy of a revision of some view) · sh ревизионѝзам (advocacy of a revision of some view) · ko 수정주의 (advocacy of a revision of some view) · hy ռևիզիոնիզմ (advocacy of a revision of some view) · pt revisionismo (advocacy of a revision of some view) · uk ревізіоні́зм (advocacy of a revision of some view) · nb revisjonisme (advocacy of a revision of some view) · sh revizionìzam (advocacy of a revision of some view) · de Revisionismus (advocacy of a revision of some view) · ka რევიზიონიზმი (advocacy of a revision of some view) · cmn 修正主義 /修正主义 (form of Marxism) · fr révisionnisme (advocacy of a revision of some view) · hu revizionizmus (advocacy of a revision of some view) · es revisionismo (advocacy of a revision of some view) · cmn 修正主義 /修正主义 (advocacy of a revision of some view) · fi uudistusmielisyys (advocacy of a revision of some view) · tl rebisyonismo (form of Marxism) · lv revizionisms (advocacy of a revision of some view) · el ρεβιζιονισμός (advocacy of a revision of some view) · et revisionism (advocacy of a revision of some view) · tk rewizionizm (advocacy of a revision of some view) · kk ревизионизм (form of Marxism) · tl rebisyonismo (advocacy of a revision of some view) · ja 修正主義 (advocacy of a revision of some view) · mk ревизиони́зам (advocacy of a revision of some view) · nl revisionisme (advocacy of a revision of some view) · ca revisionisme (advocacy of a revision of some view) · sv revisionism (form of Marxism) · ar تَعْدِيلِيَّة (advocacy of a revision of some view) · de Geschichtsrevisionismus (advocacy of a revision of some view) · gl revisionismo (advocacy of a revision of some view) · vi chủ nghĩa xét lại (form of Marxism) · el αναθεωρητισμός (advocacy of a revision of some view) · ky ревизионизм (advocacy of a revision of some view) · sl revizionizem (advocacy of a revision of some view) · ru ревизиони́зм (form of Marxism)