terrorism
English
/ˈtɛɹəɹɪzəm/
noun
Definitions
- The deliberate commission of an act of violence to create public fear through the suffering of the victims in the furtherance of a political or social agenda.
- The use of unlawful violence against people or property to achieve political objectives.
- A form of psychological manipulation through warfare to the purpose of political or religious gains, by means of deliberately creating a climate of fear amongst the inhabitants of a specific geographical region.
Etymology
Affix from French terreur suffix from English terror.
Origin
English
terror
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Islamoterrorism English
- agroterror English
- agroterrorism English
- antiterror English
- antiterrorism English
- bioterror English
- bioterrorism English
- counter-terrorism English
- counterterror English
- cyber-terrorism English
- cyberterror English
- cyberterrorism English
- ecoterror English
- ecoterrorism English
- megaterror English
- narcoterror English
- narcoterrorism English
- nonterror English
- nonterrorism English
- pharmacoterrorism English
- terror English
- terror-stricken English
- terrorcore English
- terrorful English
- terrorise English
- terrorist English
- terroristic English
- terrorize English
- terrorless English
- terrorsome English
- terrorsploitation English
- terrorstricken English
- terrorstruck English
- theoterrorism English
- terror Latin
- terror Hungarian
- terrorizmus Hungarian
- terreur Dutch, Flemish
- terreur French
- terrorisme French
- terroriste French
- terror Norwegian Bokmål
- テロリズム Japanese
- terror Polish
- terror Norwegian Nynorsk
- terreur Old French
- teruro Esperanto
- terreur Middle French
- טרור Hebrew (modern)
- terror
- nonterror
- terrorful
- terrorize
- bioterror
- terrorist
- ecoterror
- terrorise
- terrorsome
- terrorless
- megaterror
- terrorcore
- antiterror
- agroterror
- cyberterror
- narcoterror
- terroristic
- nonterrorism
- terrorstruck
- bioterrorism
- ecoterrorism
- theoterrorism
- counterterror
- antiterrorism
- agroterrorism
- cyberterrorism
- terrorstricken
- narcoterrorism
- terror-stricken
- cyber-terrorism
- Islamoterrorism
- counter-terrorism
- terrorsploitation
- pharmacoterrorism