extremismex‧trem‧is‧m /ɪkˈstriːmɪzəm/ noun [uncountable] - But we do all recognise that without that balance, in certain instances, absolutism can easily spill over into extremism.
- Nor has he condemned right-wing extremism without condemning the rarer left-wing sort in the same breath.
- Rather than reacting against the political orientations of their families, they tend to extend the extremism of their families' views.
- The extremism of the antagonistic, Western, post-Stalinist critic is mirrored in the extremism of the sycophantic Stalinist party apparatchik.
- The first is that it will be harder for the Tories to portray Labour as a party gripped by extremism.
- The irony is that our very success seems to breed more extremism in the environmental community and greater detachment from reality.
ADJECTIVE► political· It also developed his implicit warnings against the dangers of political extremism.
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