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Definition: Machiavellianism |
MachiavellianismNoun1. The political doctrine of Machiavelli: any means (however unscrupulous) can be used by a ruler in order to create and maintain his autocratic government. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Machiavellianism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | A personality dimension characterized by the manipulation of others. (references) |
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| "Machiavellianism" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Machiavellianism" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
machiavellianism | 11 |
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| Language | Translations for "machiavellianism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | achiavellianismmay.(various references) | |
Romanian | Machiavelism. (various references) | |
Turkish | Makyavelcilik. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thủ đoạn xảo quyệt (machiavellism), thủ đoạn nham hiểm (machiavellism), chính sách quỷ quyệt (machiavel, machiavelli, machiavellism). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-h-i-i-i-l-l-m-m-n-s-v" | |
-5 letters: leishmanial, misalliance. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 63 68 69 61 76 65 6C 6C 69 61 6E 69 73 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01100011 01101000 01101001 01100001 01110110 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101001 01100001 01101110 01101001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a c h i a v e l l i a n i s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0063 0068 0069 0061 0076 0065 006C 006C 0069 0061 006E 0069 0073 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47676974756788717878756780758579 |
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