Victorianism
noun
Victorianism is a noun meaning “The behaviour or beliefs of the Victorians, especially prudery” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-C-T-O-R-I-A-N-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Victorianism is Victorianisms.
What does Victorianism mean?
noun
- 1
The behaviour or beliefs of the Victorians, especially prudery.
- 2
An expression or idiom characteristic of Victorian times.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Victorianism
- Victorianisms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Victorianism?
Victorianism appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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 Victorianism come from?
From Victorian + -ism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).