adventurism

noun

ad·​ven·​tur·​ism əd-ˈven-chə-ˌri-zəm 

: improvisation or experimentation (as in politics or military or foreign affairs) in the absence or in defiance of accepted plans or principles

adventurist

əd-ˈven-ch(ə-)rist 

noun

adventuristic

əd-ˌven-chə-ˈri-stik 

adjective

Examples of adventurism in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And yet, before last summer had even ended, the intrepid adventurism that brought the nation’s first big wave of tourism was supplanted with grousing and gripes. — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2026

Trump won the White House on the promises of sidestepping forever wars and avoiding international adventurism. — Philip Elliott, Time, 17 Mar. 2026

The most explicit objector was Vance, who has been consistently opposed to foreign adventurism, and to this Iran war in particular. — Andreas Kluth, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2026

Trump began this war assuming that all other issues—nuclear weapons, terrorism, Iran’s regional adventurism—would vanish when the regime was toppled. — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 25 May 2026

Word History

Etymology

adventure entry 1 + -ism, in part after Russian avantjurizm

First Known Use

1932, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for adventurism

• activism
• albinism
• altruism
• aneurism
• animism
• aphorism
• atomism
• barbarism
• bolshevism
• botulism
• brahmanism
• calvinism