triumphalism

noun

tri·​um·​phal·​ism trī-ˈəm(p)-fə-ˌli-zəm 

: an attitude or feeling of victory or superiority: such as

a

: the attitude that one religious creed is superior to all others

b

: smug or boastful pride in the success or dominance of one's nation or ideology over others

triumphalist

trī-ˈəm(p)-fə-list 

noun or adjective

Examples of triumphalism in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There’s an inevitable triumphalism in all this rejoicing, and that was certainly also true in 1876 during the nation’s centennial. — Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026

If this is the true face of the AI industry—a technological triumphalism that sees human thought as an inefficiency to overcome and human distinctiveness as a myth to debunk—the differences between the Church and Silicon Valley may prove irreconcilable. — Elias Wachtel, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2026

Trump’s default setting is triumphalism. — Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026

Recent scholarship about the holiday marks a departure from the celebration of settler triumphalism once encapsulated in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1937 proclamation of Columbus Day. — JSTOR Daily, 11 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1964, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for triumphalism

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