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PRONUNCIATION OF DESTRUCTIVIST

destructivist  [dɪˈstrʌktɪvɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DESTRUCTIVIST

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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Destructivist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DESTRUCTIVIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of destructivist in the English dictionary

The first definition of destructivist in the dictionary is one who holds to the philosophical theory that a part of a whole may be considered a principle part if the destruction of that part would lead to the destruction of the whole. The converse is a maximalist. Other definition of destructivist is one whose actions lead towards the destruction of society; thus, one who breaks the rules of society to further his or her own interests. Destructivist is also an artist who participates in the experimental art movement destructivism, by destroying objects during a public performance.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DESTRUCTIVIST


activist
ˈæktɪvɪst
archivist
ˈɑːkɪvɪst
collectivist
kəˈlɛktɪvɪst
constructivist
kənˈstrʌktɪvɪst
descriptivist
dɪˈskrɪptɪvɪst
detectivist
dɪˈtɛktɪvɪst
exclusivist
ɪkˈskluːsɪvɪst
hacktivist
ˈhæktɪvɪst
lactivist
ˈlæktɪvɪst
nativist
ˈneɪtɪvɪst
negativist
ˈnɛɡətɪvɪst
nonobjectivist
ˌnɒnəbˈdʒektɪvɪst
objectivist
əbˈdʒektɪvɪst
perspectivist
pəˈspɛktɪvɪst
positivist
ˈpɒzɪtɪvɪst
prescriptivist
prɪˈskrɪptɪvɪst
progressivist
prəˈɡresɪvɪst
recidivist
rɪˈsɪdɪvɪst
relativist
ˈrelətɪvɪst
slacktivist
ˈslæktɪvɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DESTRUCTIVIST

destroyable
destroyer
destroyer escort
destroying angel
destruct
destruct button
destruct mechanism
destructibility
destructible
destruction
destructional
destructionist
destructive
destructive distillation
destructively
destructiveness
destructivism
destructivity
destructo
destructor

WORDS THAT END LIKE DESTRUCTIVIST

atavist
Bolshevist
comparativist
Fauvist
human rights activist
Jahvist
Jehovist
Lagerkvist
logical positivist
Menshevist
naivist
ovist
passivist
peace activist
primitivist
reservist
subjectivist
Yahvist

Synonyms and antonyms of destructivist in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «destructivist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DESTRUCTIVIST

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The translations of destructivist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «destructivist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

destructivist
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

destructivist
570 millions of speakers

English

destructivist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

destructivist
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

destructivist
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

destructivist
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

destructivist
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

destructivist
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

destructivist
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Destructivist
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

destructivist
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

destructivist
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

destructivist
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Destructivist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

destructivist
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

destructivist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विध्वंस करणारा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

destructivist
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

destructivist
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

destructivist
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

destructivist
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

destructivist
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

destructivist
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

destructivist
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

destructivist
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

destructivist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of destructivist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DESTRUCTIVIST»

The term «destructivist» is barely ever used and occupies the 209.597 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DESTRUCTIVIST» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «destructivist» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «destructivist» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about destructivist

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESTRUCTIVIST»

Discover the use of destructivist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to destructivist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy
might have asked. The master turns and points to a house: “This one.” Yet, even this line of thought does not explain why the Fragment's destructivist concedes that if this half of the wall were utterly destroyed, then “its whole” would also be ...
2
Quaestio Subtilissima
... i.e. (a) the sub-mereology appropriate to cats, according to which a tailless cat is still a cat, and (b) a surreptitious double-think, involving the illegitimate simultaneous application of both the Destructivist and the Sangermanense views.
Desmond Paul Henry, 1984
3
Dialogue on Writing: Rethinking Esl, Basic Writing, and ...
To raise this social concern with my students, I read with them various materials, including an excerpt from Thompson and Smith's Protest and Survive (1981), about the “destructivist” consciousness spreading as nuclear weapons became a  ...
Geraldine DeLuca, Len Fox, Mark -Ameen Johnson, 2001
4
Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations//collective ...
31. Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic ( Boston: Beacon Press, 2000). 32. Temporary Bureau of Destructivist Activity, Destructivist ...
Stevphen Shukaitis, David Graeber, Erika Biddle, 2007
5
American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge: ...
The destructivist tendency was far from being a predominant characteristic of the style of our national letters (at the beginning of the century Dickinson's work was sparsely and somewhat distortedly known, Melville was a little-read author of ...
Ronald E. Martin, 1991
6
The Intrusive Word: Preaching to the Unbaptized
... are called to talk about it. Recently, a woman who was a practitioner of something she called "destructivist art" came to my class. Destructivist art involves, at least in her case, throwing hydrochloric acid on a canvas, while viewers watch the ...
William H. Willimon, 1994
7
Kropotkin: And the Rise of Revolutionary Anarchism, 1872-1886
It seems strange that having made insurrectionary tactics such a central theme Kropotkin should have supported Brousse's argument in favour of the destructivist vote, where this meant using the voting process to establish a revolutionary ...
Caroline Cahm, 2002
8
Happiness as Enterprise: An Essay on Neoliberal Life
However, I would add to this that neoliberalism is also a destructivist enter- prise; it is one that directs the individual in the active destruction of the habits of dependency and social embeddedness, and the negation of any inherited disposition ...
Sam Binkley, 2014
9
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of ...
These artists are destructivists and do not pretend to play at God's happy game of creation; on the contrary, theirs is a response to the pervading will to kill. It is not the trauma of birth which concerns the destructivist. He understands that there is  ...
Kristine Stiles, Peter Howard Selz, 1996
10
The Judge
"L)ete," said Eggles, motioning * me to a seat at his table, "I want you to meet Etherington Nish; a brother Destructivist." "A what?" I demanded. "Destructivist. Very latest school, you know. Believe in clearing the ground of all our outworn ...

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DESTRUCTIVIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term destructivist is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Creative Destruction
It was recently demolished by Raphael Montañez Ortiz, author of the 1962 Destructivist Manifesto, who has done this more than 80 times since ... «Wall Street Journal, Jan 14»
2
Dirty 30 bucket list: No more procrastination, ultimate must-dos you …
... it would be like for an audience to not only witness a 'destructivist' action, but to have a hands-on, first-person involvement,” Yaseen says. «TNT Magazine, Sep 13»
3
The Mark Sanchez Era: You come to this party for the crying, not the …
... would have been super-dumb, but think on the Sanchez Era and ask yourself which is really more evocative of destructivist performance art. «SB Nation, Aug 13»
4
The 30 Greatest Dubstep Songs of All Time
British destructivist Rusko is one of the earliest artists cited as making dubstep synonymous with the chest-massaging “wobble.” He helped write the script for ... «SPIN, Jul 12»
5
Preview: Scrap Club
Having gained a cult following from destructivist art devotees and stressed out office workers alike, this weekend's event has been endowed ... «Londonist, Sep 11»
6
Can the Internet Save Endangered Languages? (VIDEO)
“Some people take a destructivist view and argue that everyone will soon be speaking English. But Mandarin is the most populous language in ... «Care2.com, Jul 11»
7
Are dying languages worth saving?
"Some people take a destructivist view and argue that everyone will soon be speaking English. But Mandarin is the most populous language in ... «BBC News, Sep 10»
8
Alannah Currie: From 1980s synth-pop to 'armchair destructivist'
No longer a Thompson Twin, she has become an "armchair destructivist". Fifteen years after she and her former partner and bandmate Tom ... «Independent, Apr 08»

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« EDUCALINGO. Destructivist [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/destructivist>. Apr 2024 ».
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