populism

English

Etymology

From Latin populus +‎ -ism.

Noun

populism (countable and uncountable, plural populisms)

1. (philosophy) A political doctrine or philosophy that proposes that the rights and powers of ordinary people are exploited by a privileged elite, and supports their struggle to overcome this.
2. (derogatory) The practice of appealing to the interests of the common people.
   • 2006, Prasanta Chakravarty, Like Parchment in the Fire, page 104:

     It is not crass populism or majoritanianism that ratifies the legitimacy of the polity or the administration.

Derived terms

• neopopulism
• penal populism
• punitive populism

Related terms

• populist

Translations

a political doctrine or philosophy

• Albanian: popullizëm m
• Arabic: شَعْبَوِيَّة f (šaʕbawiyya)
• Armenian: պոպուլիզմ (hy) (populizm)
• Belarusian: папулі́зм m (papulízm)
• Bulgarian: попули́зъм (bg) m (populízǎm)
• Catalan: populisme m
• Chinese:

  Hakka: 民粹主義 / 民粹主义 (mìn-chhui chú-ngi), 平民主義 / 平民主义 (phìn-mìn chú-ngi)

  Hokkien: 民粹主義 / 民粹主义 (pêng-bîn chú-gī), 平民主義 / 平民主义 (bîn-chhùi chú-gī),

  Mandarin: 民粹主義 / 民粹主义 (zh) (míncuìzhǔyì), 平民主義 / 平民主义 (zh) (píngmínzhǔyì)

• Czech: populismus m
• Danish: populisme c
• Dutch: populisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: populism (et)
• Finnish: populismi (fi)
• French: populisme (fr) m
• Galician: populismo (gl) m
• Georgian: პოპულიზმი (ṗoṗulizmi)
• German: Populismus (de) m
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: populizmus (hu)
• Icelandic: popúlismi m
• Japanese: ポピュリズム (popyurizumu), 大衆主義 (たいしゅうしゅぎ), 人民主義 (じんみんしゅぎ)
• Kazakh: халықшылдық (xalyqşyldyq)
• Korean: 포퓰리즘 (popyullijeum), 민사주의 (minsajuui), 평민주의 (ko) (pyeongminjuui)
• Latvian: populisms m
• Lithuanian: populizmas m
• Macedonian: попули́зам m (populízam)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: populisme m

  Nynorsk: populisme m

• Persian: پوپولیسم (popolism)
• Polish: populizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: populismo (pt) m
• Romanian: populism n
• Russian: попули́зм (ru) m (populízm), (historical) наро́дничество (ru) n (naródničestvo)
• Serbo-Croatian: populizam (sh) m, популѝзам m
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: populismo (es) m
• Swedish: populism (sv) c
• Tagalog: populismo
• Thai: ประชานิยม (bprà-chaa-ní-yom)
• Turkish: halkçılık (tr) m
• Ukrainian: популі́зм (uk) m (populízm)

See also

• demagoguery
• people's party

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French populisme. By surface analysis, popul +‎ -ism.

Noun

populism n (uncountable)

1. populism

Declension

Declension of populism

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	populism	populismul
genitive-dative	populism	populismului
vocative	populismule