Meanings
- uncountableAdvocacy of, or a policy of, elimination of a certain group of people.
Eliminationism is often voiced as crude “jokes,” a sense of humor inevitably predicated on venomous hatred. And such rhetoric—we know as surely as we know that night follows day—eventually begets action, with inevitably tragic results.
2016, David Neiwert, Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, →ISBNSynonyms: annihilationism
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAdvocacy of, or a policy of, elimination of a certain group of people.
Origin
From elimination + -ism. Coined by American author and academic Daniel Goldhagen in 1996.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
eliminationism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eliminationism
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