militarism means An ideology which claims that the military is the foundation of a society's security, and thereby its most important aspect. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 79 out of 100.
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MILITARISM — [Noun] An ideology or policy that emphasizes aggressive military preparedness and the glorification of military ideals, granting the military excessive influence over civilian society. From French militarisme, from militaire ("military"), from Latin militaris ("of a soldier, military"), from miles ("soldier"), and the suffix -isme ("-ism"), denoting a doctrine or system. Unlike *militancy* (which suggests combative activism for a specific cause, often from outside the establishment) or *pacifism* (its principled, direct antithesis), militarism is the state's systematic elevation of the martial into the civic sacred. It is the goose-step parading through the public square, the textbook that recasts history as a sequence of glorious campaigns, and the national budget where dreadnoughts are funded while libraries close—a society that has come to mistake its sword for its compass, and in doing so, forgets how to lay the blade down.
noun
- An ideology which claims that the military is the foundation of a society's security, and thereby its most important aspect.
- A focus on, or excessive use of, military force.