Meanings
- uncountableThe state or quality of being revolutionary.
Revolutionarity can exist only in the feelings of an individual man or in the periodical outbursts of the masses.
1887 October, D. Mackenzie Wallace, “Secret Societies in Russia”, in Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume XXVI, number 4, page 3982 more examples
There is, likewise, no philosophy nor any major theoretical venture in history which, irrespective of its revolutionarity, is totally free of the authority of tradition.
1965, Praxis, volume 1, page 54If you do whatever the masses don't do or the minority does, you're just as mindless a conformist follower as they are. How revolutionary?! CRASS, M.D.C., and the Yippies are probably just suggesting a better lifestyle to be considered, not step-by-step instructions to revolutionarity.
1984, Maximum Rocknroll, Issue 19, unknown pageSynonyms: revolutionariness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state or quality of being revolutionary.
Origin
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