deviationism

1. 1.

   ideological defection from the party line (especially from orthodox communism)

   Broaderdesertion

Other forms of deviationism

plural

deviationisms·

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 deviationism

What does deviationism mean?

deviationism means "ideological defection from the party line (especially from orthodox communism)".

How many syllables are in deviationism?

deviationism has 6 syllables and divides as de-vi-a-ti-o-nism under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.