Nazism

noun

Na·​zism ˈnät-sē-ˌi-zəm 

ˈnat-;

ˈnät-ˌsi-zəm 

ˈnat-

variants or less commonly Naziism

ˈnät-sē-ˌi-zəm 

ˈnat-

: the body of political and economic doctrines held and put into effect by the Nazis in Germany from 1933 to 1945 including the totalitarian principle of government, predominance of especially Germanic groups assumed to be racially superior, and supremacy of the führer

Examples of Nazism in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Wiener Werkstätte’s undue obscurity may have something to do with not only those epistolary expressions of skepticism by the founding fathers of the Frankfurt School, but also Hoffmann’s latter-day Nazism, which in this show goes unmentioned. — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 24 Aug. 2026

One of them was Mina Lautenschläger, a young Christian whose rural village fell early and hard for Nazism. — Fern Schumer Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026

The new searchable databases work against those calls, encouraging Germans to look more closely at their own families’ association with Nazism and prompting fresh reflections on how ordinary citizens came to normalize extremism. — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 28 June 2026

Owens was begrudgingly congratulated by Hitler, but neither he nor the other Black medalists were ever even acknowledged by Roosevelt, who had also refused to endorse a boycott of the Games—an effort led by Black and Jewish organizations that opposed both Nazism and American segregation. — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026

Word History

Etymology

Nazi + -ism

First Known Use

1930, in the meaning defined above