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say it: ir-uh-DEN-ti-zuhm
irredentism is a noun meaning "the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related". It carries one recorded sense.
the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for irredentism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.