Revisionism

Quick meaning: Revisionism is a noun meaning (historiography) The advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events.

Meaning

(historiography) The advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events.

More Meanings

1. (Marxism, derogatory) An evolutionary form of Marxism, abandoning some of its original principles.

Example Sentences

Meanwhile, Holocaust survivors are dying every day. There are few left to protest the new revisionism.

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.

As for Jones’s performance as Mandy Cohen, it united two leading facets of the funnyman’s repertoire: his fondness for female impersonation, and his passion for historical revisionism.

Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist and the author of the popular newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist. She argues that we’ve entered a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: “pandemic revisionism.”

Word Forms

• revisionisms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include antirevisionism, crypto-revisionism, historism, counter-revisionist, historist, reversionism.

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