alarmism

1. 1.

   needless warnings

   Broaderwarning

Other forms of alarmism

plural

alarmisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about alarmism

What does alarmism mean?

alarmism means "needless warnings".

How many syllables are in alarmism?

alarmism has 3 syllables: a-lar-mism. The stress falls on "a".

Is alarmism a common word?

alarmism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.