activism

English

activism (countable and uncountable, plural activisms)

The practice of using action to achieve a result, such as political demonstration or a strike in support of or in opposition to an issue.
- 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
  That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.

practice of using action to achieve a result

Arabic: نَشَاطِيَّة f (našāṭiyya)
Catalan: activisme (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 行動主義／行动主义 (zh) (xíngdòngzhǔyì)
Czech: aktivismus (cs) m
Danish: aktivisme c
Dutch: activisme (nl) n
Esperanto: aktivismo
Finnish: aktivismi (fi)
French: activisme (fr) m
Galician: activismo (gl) m
German: Aktivismus (de) m
Greek: ακτιβισμός (el) m (aktivismós)
Icelandic: aktívismi m
Indonesian: aktivisme (id)
Italian: attivismo m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: aktivisme (no) m
Occitan: activisme (oc) m
Polish: aktywizm (pl) m
Portuguese: ativismo (pt) m
Russian: акти́вность (ru) f (aktívnostʹ), активи́зм (ru) (aktivízm) (esp. in politics)
Serbo-Croatian: aktivizam (sh) m
Spanish: activismo (es) m
Swedish: aktivism (sv)
Turkish: eylemcilik (tr), aktivizm (tr), etkincilik (tr)
Ukrainian: активі́зм m (aktyvízm)

Borrowed from French activisme. By surface analysis, activ +‎ -ism.

activism n (uncountable)

declension of activism (singular only)

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