Meaning of inopportunism | Babel Free

Definitions

A reluctance to take advantage of pragmatic opportunities that present themselves, usually because of ideological or theological purity.

uncountable

Examples

“And I do not believe in the inopportunism of Socialists.”

“Who would risk a schism in a mere question of inopportunism?”

“When we still had a situation where we had to reckon with revolutionary spasms, we faced what was called the 'inopportunism' of the Left, a tendency that had to be overcome.”

CEFR level