Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The leveling of distinctions in society, or the principle or doctrine of such leveling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The disposition or endeavor to level all distinctions of rank in society.

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  • noun The political aim of levelling all distinctions of rank in society; egalitarianism.

Etymologies

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level +‎ -ism

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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 Harry Best

  • 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. 1890

  • 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.

    The Last of the Barons — Volume 07 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • 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

    The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • But communism, mistaking uniformity for law, and levelism for equality, becomes tyrannical and unjust.

    What is Property? 1837

  • 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 Telegraph Staff 2011

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