revisionism

From revision +‎ -ism.

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvɪʒəˌnɪzəm/

revisionism (countable and uncountable, plural revisionisms)

1. (historiography) The advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events.
   • 2018 October 8, Anne Perkins, “A Dad’s Army-style Brexit looms. ‘Don’t panic!’”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Tories spent last week boldly whistling their unique brand of the kind of historical revisionism that has played a major part in getting us here.

   • 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     As for Jones’s performance as Mandy Cohen, it united two leading facets of the funnyman’s repertoire: his fondness for female impersonation, and his passion for historical revisionism.

   • 2022 January 29, Jan Grabowski, “The New Wave of Holocaust Revisionism”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 January 2022:

     Meanwhile, Holocaust survivors are dying every day. There are few left to protest the new revisionism.

   • 2023 August 29, Ezra Klein, “It’s Time to Talk About ‘Pandemic Revisionism’”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 August 2023:

     Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist and the author of the popular newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist. She argues that we’ve entered a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: “pandemic revisionism.”

   • 2025 March 19, Arash Azizi, “A Battle for the Soul of the West”, in The Atlantic‎^[5], archived from the original on 19 March 2025:

     For inspiration, they [Orbán’s fellow anti-liberal counterrevolutionaries] look to the Russia of Vladimir Putin, whose national chauvinism, banning of “gender ideology” and “gay propaganda,” and revisionism against the world order fit well with their agenda.

2. (Marxism, derogatory) An evolutionary form of Marxism, abandoning some of its original principles.

• crypto-revisionism

• denialism
• negationism

revisionism c

1. (historiography) revisionism
2. (Marxism, derogatory) revisionism

• historierevisionism

• revidera
• revision

• revisionism in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• revisionism in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• revisionism in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)