Associations to the word «Adventurism»

Wiktionary

ADVENTURISM, noun. The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking. [from 19th c.]
ADVENTURISM, noun. (politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs. [from 20th c.]

Dictionary definition

ADVENTURISM, noun. Recklessness in politics or foreign affairs.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope