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accelerationism

/əkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃə.nɪ.zm̩/noun

accelerationism is spelled A-C-C-E-L-E-R-A-T-I-O-N-I-S-M: 15 letters. It appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, accelerationism means “The idea that either the prevailing system of capitalism, or certain technosocial processes that historically characterised it, should be expanded…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of accelerationism is accelerationisms.

How many letters and syllables are in accelerationism?

Letters15: A-C-C-E-L-E-R-A-T-I-O-N-I-S-M
In writingabout once in every 66 million words; the 255,765th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is accelerationism?

Accelerationism appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce accelerationism?

  • /əkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃə.nɪ.zm̩/
  • /ækˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃə.nɪ.zm̩/
  • /ɪkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃə.nɪ.zm̩/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Khangtran2008-accelerationism.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of accelerationism

  • accelerationisms plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does accelerationism mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The idea that either the prevailing system of capitalism, or certain technosocial processes that historically characterised it, should be expanded and accelerated in order to generate radical social change.

  2. 2

    The theory that excessively low unemployment accelerates inflation.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Accelerationism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense theory that capitalism or some of its processes should be accelerated:

LanguageWords
Frenchaccélérationnisme
GermanAkzelerationismus
Portugueseaceleracionismo
Spanishaceleracionismo

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does accelerationism come from?

From acceleration + -ism. Usage as “support for accelerating capitalism” attributed to Benjamin Noys, 2010s.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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