Usually means: Advocacy for change, often public.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. activism: Merriam-Webster
  2. activism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. activism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. activism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. activism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Activism, activism: Wordnik
  7. activism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. activism: Wiktionary
  9. activism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. activism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. activism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. activism: Dictionary.com
  13. activism: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Activism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. activism: Rhymezone
  16. activism: FreeDictionary.org
  17. activism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. activism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. activism: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. activism: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. activism: Father Jeromes DICTIONARY of Words/Phrases Used in the QUFD Website
  3. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  The practice of using action to achieve a result, such as political demonstration or a strike in support of or in opposition to an issue.

Similar:
Actionism, actionist, artivism, transactivism, activist justice, political opposition, advocacy group, aggressivism, ecoactivism, enactivism, more...

Opposite:
passivism, apathy, apoliticalness

Types:
civil disobedience, protest, voting, lobbying, running for office, donating, more...

Phrases:
political activism, social activism, judicial activism, Student activism, environmental activism, more...

Adjectives:
political, social, judicial, environmental, feminist, civil, black, islamic, radical, gay, civic

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Similar:
Actionism, actionist, artivism, transactivism, activist justice, political opposition, advocacy group, aggressivism, ecoactivism, enactivism, more...

Opposite:
passivism, apathy, apoliticalness

Types:
civil disobedience, protest, voting, lobbying, running for office, donating, more...

Phrases:
political activism, social activism, judicial activism, Student activism, environmental activism, Youth activism, Hashtag activism, Political views and activism of Rage Against the Machine, more...

Adjectives:
political, social, judicial, environmental, feminist, civil, black, islamic, radical, gay, civic

Colors:
    red,     green,     black,     white,     yellow, more...



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