self-radicalizationn.
/ˌsɛlfˌradᵻkəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌsɛlfˌradᵻkl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˌrædəkələˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌsɛlfˌrædəkəˌlaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ The action or process of becoming radical, esp. in political or religious outlook, without active influence from or connection with established radical groups or their members.Now often in discussions of people who engage in extremist or terrorist activity; see note at self-radicalize v.
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1960 Internat. Socialist Rev. Summer 75/1 Sartre sees as the possible end point of this development, should the foreign pressure prove sufficient, ‘self-radicalization’ of the Cuban Revolution.
1994 New German Critique No. 63. 166 New forms of artistic..expression, liberated from the past and set loose on an unbridled path of self-radicalization.
2005 Economist 15 July 25/3 These patterns of self-recruitment and self-radicalisation are a headache for security services.
2013 E. Southers Homegrown Violent Extremism Introd. p. xi It is believed these men traversed a process of self-radicalization in the United States.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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