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revivalism

noun

revivalism is spelled R-E-V-I-V-A-L-I-S-M: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 99,289th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, revivalism means “Advocacy for the revival of a former practice, custom, etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of revivalism is revivalisms.

How many letters and syllables are in revivalism?

Letters10: R-E-V-I-V-A-L-I-S-M
In writingabout once in every 11 million words; the 99,289th 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 revivalism?

Revivalism appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 99,289th 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).

Forms of revivalism

  • revivalisms plural

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

What does revivalism mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Advocacy for the revival of a former practice, custom, etc.

    Art Deco revivalism

  2. 2

    Spiritual fervour of or for a religious revival.

    Neither the Revivalism that assails a boy at about the age of fifteen, nor the skepticism that meets him five years later, could sway him from his allegiance to the church into which he had been born.

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

Where does revivalism come from?

From revival + -ism.

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

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