vigilantism

1. 1.

   the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws

   Broaderlaw enforcement

Other forms of vigilantism

plural

vigilantisms·

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 vigilantism

What does vigilantism mean?

vigilantism means "the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws".

How many syllables are in vigilantism?

vigilantism has 5 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ˌvɪdʒəˈlæntɪzəm/.

Is vigilantism a common word?

vigilantism 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.