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neofascism

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A right-wing political movement inspired by fascism, especially by that of Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the Empire of Japan.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nu Proto-Indo-European *néwos Proto-Hellenic *néwos Ancient Greek νέος (néos) Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der. English neo- Latin fascis Italian fascio Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der. Latin -ismus Italian -ismo Italian fascismolbor. English fascism English neofascism From neo- + fascism.

Across languages

Translations

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: neofashizëm — right-wing political movement
  • Arabic: فَاشِيَّة جَدِيدَة (fāšiyya jadīda) — right-wing political movement
  • Armenian: նեոֆաշիզմ (neofašizm) — right-wing political movement
  • Azerbaijani: neofaşizm — right-wing political movement
  • Belarusian: неафашы́зм (njeafašýzm) — right-wing political movement
  • Belarusian: нэафашы́зм (neafašýzm) — right-wing political movement
  • Bulgarian: неофаши́зъм (neofašízǎm) — right-wing political movement
  • Chinese Mandarin: 新法西斯主義 /新法西斯主义 (xīn fàxīsīzhǔyì) — right-wing political movement
  • Czech: neofašismus — right-wing political movement
  • Danish: nyfascisme — right-wing political movement
  • Dutch: neofascisme — right-wing political movement
  • Esperanto: novfaŝismo — right-wing political movement
  • Estonian: neofašism — right-wing political movement
  • Finnish: uusfasismi — right-wing political movement
  • French: néofascisme — right-wing political movement
  • Georgian: ნეოფაშიზმი (neopašizmi) — right-wing political movement
  • German: Neofaschismus — right-wing political movement
  • Greek: νεοφασισμός (neofasismós) — right-wing political movement
  • Hebrew: נאו־פשיזם (neo-fashizm) — right-wing political movement
  • Hungarian: neofasizmus — right-wing political movement
  • Hungarian: újfasizmus — right-wing political movement
  • Indonesian: neo-fasisme — right-wing political movement
  • Italian: neofascismo — right-wing political movement
  • Japanese: ネオ・ファシズム (neo-fashizumu) — right-wing political movement
  • Japanese: 新ファシズム — right-wing political movement
  • Kazakh: неофашизм (neofaşizm) — right-wing political movement
  • Kazakh: жаңа фашизм (jaña faşizm) — right-wing political movement
  • Khmer: នវកលាបនិយម (nea’vea’ka’ liep ni’yum) — right-wing political movement
  • Korean: 신파시즘 (sinpasijeum) — right-wing political movement
  • Korean: 네오파시즘 (ne'opasijeum) — right-wing political movement
  • Kyrgyz: неофашизм (neofaşizm) — right-wing political movement
  • Kyrgyz: жаңы фашизм (jaŋı faşizm) — right-wing political movement
  • Latvian: neofašisms — right-wing political movement
  • Lithuanian: neofašizmas — right-wing political movement
  • Macedonian: неофаши́зам (neofašízam) — right-wing political movement
  • Norwegian Bokmål: nyfascisme — right-wing political movement
  • Persian: نئوفاشیسم — right-wing political movement
  • Polish: neofaszyzm — right-wing political movement
  • Portuguese: neofascismo — right-wing political movement
  • Romanian: neofascism — right-wing political movement
  • Russian: неофаши́зм (neofašízm) — right-wing political movement
  • Serbo-Croatian: неофашѝзам — right-wing political movement
  • Serbo-Croatian: neofašìzam — right-wing political movement
  • Slovak: neofašizmus — right-wing political movement
  • Slovene: neofašizem — right-wing political movement
  • Spanish: neofascismo — right-wing political movement
  • Swedish: nyfascism — right-wing political movement
  • Turkish: neofaşizm — right-wing political movement
  • Ukrainian: неофаши́зм (neofašýzm) — right-wing political movement
  • Uzbek: neofashizm — right-wing political movement
  • Yiddish: נעאָ־פֿאַשיזם (neo-fashizm) — right-wing political movement