Synonyms for socialism
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.
Related words
- Word family
- social socialization socialize socialist socialistic
- Phrases
- utopian socialism
Forms
- Plural
- socialisms → communisms, collectivisms…
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Its aim is extended industrial cooperation; socialism is a purely economic term, applying to landownership and productive capital.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- communism A spectre haunts Europe: the spectre of communism.
- collectivism Algeria forced collectivism upon farmers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| socialism | falling | |
| communism | falling | |
| collectivism | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 9 letters
- communism4
- 12 letters
- collectivism5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (communism4 = 4 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- socialisme
- Italiano
- socialismo
- Deutsch
- Sozialismus