revisionism

English

Etymology

revision + -ism

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈvɪʒəˌnɪzəm/

Noun

revisionism (countable and uncountable, plural revisionisms)

  1. (historiography) The advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events.
    • 2018, Anne Perkins, A Dad’s Army-style Brexit looms. ‘Don’t panic!’ in the Guardian.
      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.
  2. (Marxism, derogatory) An evolutionary form of Marxism, abandoning some of its original principles.

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