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Euroscepticism

noun

Euroscepticism is a noun meaning “Opposition to or scepticism of increasing European integration, such as the EEC, the EC, the EP, the EU, the Euro” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-U-R-O-S-C-E-P-T-I-C-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does Euroscepticism mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Opposition to or scepticism of increasing European integration, such as the EEC, the EC, the EP, the EU, the Euro.

  2. 2

    Opposition to or scepticism of the increasing powers of the European Union.

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

How do you pronounce Euroscepticism?

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

Forms of Euroscepticism

  • Euro-scepticism
  • Euro-skepticism
  • Euroskepticism

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

How common is Euroscepticism?

Euroscepticism appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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).

Euroscepticism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense scepticism of increasing powers of the EU:

LanguageWords
Frencheuroscepticisme
GermanEuroskepsis, Euroskeptizismus, EU-Skepsis, EU-Skeptizismus
Portugueseeuroceticismo
Spanisheuroescepticismo

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 Euroscepticism come from?

From Euro- + scepticism.

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