Hungarism

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian hungarizmus, from Hungária + -izmus. By surface analysis, Hungary +‎ -ism.

Noun

Hungarism (uncountable)

1. (chiefly historical) The fascist ideology of the Nazi-aligned Arrow Cross Party, which ruled Hungary from 1944 to 1945, and of its predecessors and subsequent far-right supporters.

   Synonym: Hungarianism

   • 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 434:

     A revised Party programme allowed, in foreign policy, for “adjustment to the New Order devised by the Axis Powers,” but only in so far as this was compatible with Hungarism.

Related terms

• Hungarist

Translations

fascist movement

• French: hungarisme (fr) m
• German: Hungarismus m
• Hungarian: hungarizmus (hu)
• Italian: ungarismo m
• Spanish: hungarismo m

Further reading

• Arrow Cross Party on Wikipedia.Wikipedia