Dictionary Definition
subversion
Noun
1 destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty
or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor";
"the big city's subversion of rural innocence" [syn: corruption]
2 the act of subverting; as overthrowing or
destroying a legally constituted government [syn: subversive
activity]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)ʒən
Etymology
From subversion.Noun
- the act of subverting or the condition of being subverted
- a systematic attempt to overthrow a government by working from within; undermining
Related terms
Translations
act of subverting or the condition of being
subverted
- German: Subversion
- Portuguese: subversão
- Swedish: subversion
systematic attempt to overthrow a government by
working from within
- Finnish: kumouksellisuus, valtionvastainen toiminta
- German: Subversion
- Swedish: subversion
- ttbc French: contestation
French
Noun
fr-noun fSwedish
Noun
subversionRelated terms
Extensive Definition
Subversion can refer to:
- Subversion (politics), against the structures of authority
- Subversion (software), a version control system
- Subversion (computer game), a planned game from Introversion Software
- Subversion (song), by Moonspell, on Irreligious
See also
- Theory of Subversion and Containment, as discussed by Stephen Greenblatt in his essay Invisible Bullets
- SAEDA, Subversion and Espionage Directed Against the US Army
subversion in German: Subversion
subversion in French: Subversion
subversion in Swedish: Subversion
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
alienation, answer, bloodless revolution,
bouleversement,
brainwashing,
breakdown, breakup, capsizal, capsize, cataclysm, catastrophe, clean slate,
clean sweep, complete answer, computer revolution, confounding, confutation, contradiction, controversion, convulsion, corruption, counterindoctrination,
counterrevolution,
culbute, debacle, demolishing, demolition, denial, destroying, destruction, discrediting, displacement, downfall, effective rejoinder,
fall, indoctrination, overset, overthrow, overthrowal, overturn, palace revolution,
prostration, radical
change, rebuttal,
refutal, refutation, reindoctrination,
revolt, revolution, revolutionary
war, revulsion,
ruin, sabotage, somersault, somerset, spasm, spill, squelch, striking alteration,
sweeping change, tabula rasa, technological revolution, total
change, transilience, turnover, undermining, upheaval, upset, upsetting, upturn, violent change, wreckage, wrecking