English
eradicationism
From eradication + -ism.
Formed from eradication + -ism
Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds ‘root’
Proto-Italic *wrādīks ‘root’
Latin rādīx ‘root’
Latin ērādīcō ‘to root out’
Latin ērādīcātiō ‘rooting out, eradication’
English eradication
The story
Coined around 1900 by people from the circle of Dwight L.
Today it means
noun The belief that something (often disease or a cultural trait) must be eliminated.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / eradicationism