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retreatism|rɪˈtriːtɪz(ə)m|
[f. retreat n. + -ism.]
1. A policy of retreat; advocacy of (military) withdrawal.
1951Times 24 Feb. 7/3 General Eisenhower returned to Europe this week bringing assurance that his country has rejected the ‘retreatism’ advocated by Mr. Herbert Hoover and supported by Senator Taft. 1976J. Rowan Ordinary Ecstasy ii. 25 If we see everything as perfect as it is, we may be inclined to quietism and retreatism in political terms.
2. Sociol. A state of passive withdrawal from society induced by a sense of inability to attain its norms or to offer resistance to them.
1957R. K. Merton Social Theory (rev. ed.) iv. 153 Retreatism..is an expedient which arises from continued failure to near the goal by legitimate measures and from an inability to use the illegitimate route because of internalized prohibitions. 1963T. & P. Morris Pentonville vii. 173 Retreatism in prison is comparatively rare, and can be identified with either an extreme manifestation of institutional neurosis..or with various stages of mental illness. 1969in Lindzey & Aronson Handbk. Social Psychol. (ed. 2) IV. xxxiii. 352 With warfare no longer possible, there is a great deal of retreatism and social withdrawal. 1970New Society 31 Dec. 1158/2 Thus, men like Roy..would still maintain that the only rational solution was retreatism. |