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Definition of militarism : 1. A military state or condition; reliance on military force in administering government; a military system.
2. The spirit and traditions of military life.

Synonyms:

collectivist, colonialist, anarchism, Arabism, cause, antidisestablishmentarianism, collectivism, capitalism, big tent, power, camp follower, regimentation, war, militancy

Usage examples:

• Germany was obsessed with the spirit of militarism and almost everything else had been sacrificed to this idol. - "Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights", Kelly Miller.
• For years the sole aim and goal of the German house of Hohenzollern has been the perfection to a marvelous degree of her policy of militarism. - "Lucile Triumphant", Elizabeth M. Duffield.
• An early English protest against militarism! - "Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life", Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey.