environmentalism

1. 1.

   the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth

   Antonymshereditarianism

   Broaderphilosophical doctrine
2. 2.

   the activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction

   Broaderpreservation

Other forms of environmentalism

plural

environmentalisms·

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 environmentalism

What does environmentalism mean?

environmentalism means "the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in environmentalism?

environmentalism has 7 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ɛnˈvaɪɹənˌmɛntəˌlɪzəm/.

What is the opposite of environmentalism?

The recorded antonyms are hereditarianism.

Is environmentalism a common word?

environmentalism 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.

What rhymes with environmentalism?

48 words rhyme with environmentalism. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.