different between political vs adventurism

English

Alternative forms

• politicall (obsolete)

Etymology

politic +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??l?t?k?l/
• Hyphenation: po?lit?i?cal

Adjective

political (comparative more political, superlative most political)

1. Concerning or relating to politics, the art and process of governing.
2. Concerning a polity or its administrative components.

3. (derogatory) Motivated, especially inappropriately, by political (electoral or other party political) calculation.

   “The Court invalidates Minnesota’s political apparel ban based on its inability to define the term ‘political'”

4. Of or relating to views about social relationships that involve power or authority.
5. (of a person) Interested in politics.

Synonyms

• politic

Antonyms

• nonpolitical, non-political

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Descendants

• ? Hindi: ???????? (politikal)

Noun

political (plural politicals)

1. A political agent or officer.
   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 265:

     One such officer was Count Nikolai Ignatiev, a brilliant and ambitious political, who enjoyed the ear of the Tsar and burned to settle his country's scores with the British.

2. A publication focusing on politics.

References

• political at OneLook Dictionary Search
• political in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• political in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From adventure +? -ism.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?v?n(t)????z(?)m/

Noun

adventurism (countable and uncountable, plural adventurisms)

1. The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking. [from 19th c.]
   • 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, 1994, p. 161,^[1]

     […] she really hadn’t wanted me to think of her as given over wholly to sexual excess and adventurism […]

   • 1980, Susan Sontag, “Fascinating Fascism” in Under the Sign of Saturn, New York: Vintage, 1981, pp. 101-102,

     In pornographic literature, films, and gadgetry throughout the world […] the SS has become a referent of sexual adventurism.

2. (politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs. [from 20th c.]
   • 1993, Ng?g? 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.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 133:

     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.

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