Synonyms of radicalism

radicalism

noun

1

as in socialism

Related Words

• socialism
• liberalism
• left
• leftism
• left wing
• neoliberalism

Dissimilar Words

• conservatism
• neoconservatism
• right
• illiberalism
• immobilism

2

as in extremism

Related Words

• extremism
• irrationality
• unreasonableness
• excessiveness
• immoderation
• exorbitance
• excess
• intemperance
• immoderacy
• insobriety
• extravagance
• nimiety
• prodigality
• intemperateness

Dissimilar Words

• moderation
• temperance
• moderateness
• temperateness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of radicalism

But before either the discussion or the dialogue, some opening thoughts on some trends that have disturbed me toward radicalism and extremism in Democratic Party primary contests. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026

Enhanced by the large amount of American art spanning centuries that is always a part of The Wadsworth’s permanent exhibitions, the whole multi-building complex proclaims a sense of independence, revolution and especially radicalism. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2026

In this era of growing labor radicalism and open conflict with capital, Taylor promised docile and happy workers alongside high profits. — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026

But that distinction would have made little sense to seventeenth-century women, whose religious radicalism led them to make vehement political critiques of their own society. — Chandler Fritz, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2026