alarmism

English

Etymology

From alarm +‎ -ism.

Noun

alarmism (usually uncountable, plural alarmisms)

1. The raising of needless alarms.
   • 2021 July 31, Edward Helmore, “US vaccinations rise but White House frustrated with media ‘alarmism’”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Even as the White House highlighted what it considers alarmism in reporting of the surge in cases of the Delta coronavirus variant across the US, reports in the same national media suggested vaccinations are increasing in hotspot areas.

   • 2022 September 6, Jacob Rees-Mogg, quotee, “Jacob Rees-Mogg, who decried ‘climate alarmism’, to take on UK energy brief”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Rees-Mogg has claimed that “climate alarmism” is responsible for high energy prices and that it is unrealistic for scientists to project future changes to the climate because meteorologists struggle to correctly predict the weather.

Related terms

• alarmist

Translations

production of needless alarms — see also fearmongering

• Catalan: alarmisme m
• Czech: alarmismus m
• Finnish: alarmismi
• French: alarmisme (fr) m
• Galician: alarmismo m
• German: Alarmismus (de) m, Panikmache (de) f
• Italian: allarmismo (it) m
• Portuguese: alarmismo m
• Russian: аларми́зм (ru) m (alarmízm), паникёрство n (panikjórstvo)
• Spanish: alarmismo (es) m

See also

• scaremonger

Further reading

• alarmism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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