Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The leveling of distinctions in society, or the principle or doctrine of such leveling.
Wiktionary
- n. The political aim of levelling all distinctions of rank in society; egalitarianism.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The disposition or endeavor to level all distinctions of rank in society.
Etymologies
- level + -ism (Wiktionary)
Examples
“By the discipline, which is necessary, much of the spontaneity of growing children is destroyed, and the surroundings are pervaded with the spirit of uniformity, "solidarity" and "dead levelism.”
The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States
“But communism, mistaking uniformity for law, and levelism for equality, becomes tyrannical and unjust.”
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.
“He had much of the frantic levelism and jacquerie of his age and land, and could probably not have explained to himself all the changes he desired to effect; but, coupled with his hatred to the nobles, his deep and passionate sympathy with the poor, his heated and fanatical chimeras of a republic, half-political and half-religious, he had, with no uncommon inconsistency, linked the cause of a dethroned king.”
“He had much of the frantic levelism and jacquerie of his age and land, and could probably not have explained to himself all the changes he desired to effect; but, coupled with his hatred to the nobles, his deep and passionate sympathy with the poor, his heated and fanatical chimeras of”
“But we somehow got through, and I think we were very greatly helped by the ideology known as political correctness, relativism, levelism, because that was fiercely anti-imperialist.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Lists
‘levelism’ hasn't been added to any lists yet.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for levelism.

Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.