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Quixotism

Definition: Quixotism

Quixotism

Noun

1. Quixotic (romantic and impractical) behavior.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "quixotism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)


Synonym: Quixotism

Synonym: knight errantry (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Quixotism

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Excitability

Fascination, infatuation, fanaticism; Quixotism, Quixotry; tete montee.

Rashness

Foolhardihood, foolhardiness; heedlessness, thoughtlessness; (inattention); carelessness; (neglect); desperation; Quixotism, knight-errantry; fire eating.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Quixotism

English words defined with "quixotism": Quixotry. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Quixotism

DomainTitle

Books

  • Female Quixotism (Scholars Facsimiles & Reprints, Vol 432) (reference)

  • The Age of Reasons: Quixotism, Sentimentalism and Political Economy in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought, (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Quixotism

Language Translations for "quixotism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

donkishotizëm. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نزعة إنسانية تعنى بإحقاق الحق ومحاربة الباطل, ‏شهم (chivalrous, magnanimous, noble, noble-minded). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

донкихотовщина (quixotry). (various references)

   

Czech

  

donkichotství. (various references)

   

French

  

donquichottisme. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fellegjárás. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ixotismquay

   

Romanian

  

atitudine donchişoteascã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

донкихотство (knight-errantry, quixotry). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

don-kihotstvo (quixotry). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

quijotismo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

donquijotism (quixotry). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

gereksiz kahramanlık gösterme çabası (quixotry), don kişotluk (quixotry). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

донкіхотство. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính h o hiệp viển vông (quixotics, quixotry). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Quixotism

Derivations

Words beginning with "quixotism": quixotisms. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Quixotism"

Words rhyming with "quixotism" (pronounced 'Quix"ot*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Quixotism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-i-m-o-q-s-t-u-x"

-3 letters: ostium, quoits.

-4 letters: mitis, moist, omits, oxims, quits, quoit, sixmo.

-5 letters: miso, mist, mixt, most, mots, must, muts, omit, oust, outs, oxim, quit, smit, smut, stum, suit, sumo, toms, tuis.

 Words containing the letters "i-i-m-o-q-s-t-u-x"
 

+1 letter: quixotisms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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