Adventurism

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Political strategy focusing on individual actions such as assassinating political enemies. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    recklessness in politics or foreign affairs wordnet
  3. 3
    The behavior of an adventurer; risk-taking. countable, uncountable

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

  4. 4
    The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs. countable, uncountable

    "1993, Ngũgĩ 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."

Etymology

From adventure + -ism.

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