revolutionarity

revolutionarity

English

Etymology

revolutionary +‎ -ity

Noun

revolutionarity (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being revolutionary.
   • 1887, D. Mackenzie Wallace, "Secret Societies in Russia", Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume XXVI, Number 4, October 1887, page 398:

     Revolutionarity can exist only in the feelings of an individual man or in the periodical outbursts of the masses.

   • 1965, Praxis, Volume 1, page 54:

     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.

   • 1984, Maximum Rocknroll, Issue 19, unknown page:

     If 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.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:revolutionarity.

Synonyms

• revolutionariness