activism

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti

Proto-Italic *agō

Latin agō

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.

Latin -īvus

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Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl.

Latin āctīvusbor.

Old French actifbor.

Middle English actyf

English active

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.

English -ism

English activism

From active + -ism.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US, Canada, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈæk.tɪ.vɪ.zəm/, [ˈæk.tɪ.vɪ.zm̩]

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Noun

activism (countable and uncountable, plural activisms)

1. The practice of using action to achieve a result, such as political demonstration or a strike in support of or in opposition to an issue.
   • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.

Derived terms

• artivism
• clicktivism
• craftivism
• cyberactivism
• e-activism
• ecoactivism
• hacktivism
• hactivism
• hashtivism
• hyperactivism
• inactivism
• intactivism
• judicial activism
• kayaktivism
• lactivism
• leaktivism
• microactivism
• nonactivism
• proactivism
• slacktivism
• transactivism

Related terms

• activist
• activistic

Translations

practice of using action to achieve a result

• Arabic: نَشَاطِيَّة f (našāṭiyya)
• Catalan: activisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 行動主義 / 行动主义 (zh) (xíngdòngzhǔyì)

• Czech: aktivismus (cs) m
• Danish: aktivisme c
• Dutch: activisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: aktivismo
• Finnish: aktivismi (fi)
• French: activisme (fr) m
• Galician: activismo (gl) m
• German: Aktivismus (de) m
• Greek: ακτιβισμός (el) m (aktivismós)
• Icelandic: aktívismi m
• Indonesian: aktivisme (id)
• Italian: attivismo m
• Māori: tūtohetohetanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: aktivisme (no) m

• Occitan: activisme (oc) m
• Polish: aktywizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: ativismo (pt) m
• Russian: акти́вность (ru) f (aktívnostʹ), активи́зм (ru) (aktivízm) (esp. in politics)
• Serbo-Croatian: aktivizam (sh) m
• Spanish: activismo (es) m
• Swedish: aktivism (sv)
• Turkish: eylemcilik (tr), aktivizm (tr), etkincilik (tr)
• Ukrainian: активі́зм m (aktyvízm)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French activisme. By surface analysis, activ +‎ -ism.

Noun

activism n (uncountable)

1. activism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	activism	activismul
genitive-dative	activism	activismului
vocative	activismule