ADVENTURISM

adventurism

(noun) recklessness in politics or foreign affairs

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

adventurism (countable and uncountable, plural adventurisms)

The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking. [from 19th c.]

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

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

18 May 2025

OBLIQUE

(adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; “the oblique rays of the winter sun”; “acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles”; “the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base”


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