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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 is pronounced /ˌɪɹəˈdɛntɪzəm/ — ir-uh-DEN-ti-zuhm. 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.