Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The ideology and practice of the Nazis, especially the policy of racist nationalism, national expansion, and state control of the economy.

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  • proper noun The ideology of Adolf Hitler’s NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers’ Party), including a Führer’s totalitarian government, racism, and often nationalist territorial expansion (Lebensraum) and state control of the (war) economy.

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  • noun a form of socialism featuring racism and expansionism and obedience to a strong leader

Etymologies

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Nazi +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • Using the rubric of Public Equity which he called Nazism, Hitler was able to secretly rebuilt Germany into a military superpower.

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  • That was fanciful enough, to be sure, but the carnage of 1914 – 18, which led to the greatest fall of monarchies in history, also widened and deepened the class chasms and led to the spewing-up of Nazism from the wreckage of defeated Germany.

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  • That was fanciful enough, to be sure, but the carnage of 1914 – 18, which led to the greatest fall of monarchies in history, also widened and deepened the class chasms and led to the spewing-up of Nazism from the wreckage of defeated Germany.

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  • Of course Nazism is what some Germans did; others fought against it, and still others were indifferent.

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  • Nazism is just another alien import that like communism should be treated as the toxic pile of crap it truly is.

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  • The institutional beliefs and drives of, say, Nazism, are clearly dangerous (though a Nazi would argue vehemently that Nazism is not at all dangerous) and such “- isms” can justify “hate” (whatever “hate” is).

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  • This despite the fact that Nazism is utterly discredited as an ideology.

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  • Now there was just a paragraph of discussion comparing the book's villains to various figures in Nazism (and when the good guys assess the bad guys, they're always right).

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  • To me one of the tragedies of Nazism is the way that this great symbol from our collective human heritage (independently occurring in a number of different parts of the world) has been gravely tarnished.

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  • Now there was just a paragraph of discussion comparing the book's villains to various figures in Nazism (and when the good guys assess the bad guys, they're always right).

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