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Definition of Alarmism
1. Noun. Needless warnings.
Definition of Alarmism
1. Noun. The production of needless alarms. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alarmism
1. the practice of alarming others needlessly [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alarmism
Literary usage of Alarmism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Opinions on the Scriptural Doctrine of Retribution by Edward Beecher (1878)
"The spirit that I refer to was a spirit of alarmism, and outcry, which appealed
to the prejudices of the laity and clergy, and of the ignorant monks in the ..."
2. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone by John Morley (1911)
"•i BOOK the spirit of 'alarmism.' Towards th'e end of the month v , he went on
to Balmoral. On September 26 he was pre- 1871 sented with the freedom of ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1886)
"Let us beware, however, of exaggeration or alarmism. We do not at all desire to
imply that there is anything approaching to parallelism in the conditions ..."
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