vanguardism
noun
vanguardism is a noun meaning “The strategy whereby an organization (usually a vanguard party) attempts to place itself at the centre of a revolutionary movement and steer it in a…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-N-G-U-A-R-D-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vanguardism is vanguardisms.
What does vanguardism mean?
noun
- 1
The strategy whereby an organization (usually a vanguard party) attempts to place itself at the centre of a revolutionary movement and steer it in a direction consistent with its ideology.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vanguardism
- vanguardisms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vanguardism?
Vanguardism appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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).
Where does vanguardism come from?
From vanguard + -ism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).