political orientation vs leftism

leftism vs political orientation

political orientation and leftism both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
political orientation	Yes	No	No	No
leftism	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, leftism is a hyponym of political orientation; that is, leftism is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than political orientation:

political orientation: an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation
leftism: the ideology of the political left; belief in or support of the tenets of the political left

Other hyponyms of political orientation include absolutism, totalism, totalitarianism, anarchism, autocracy, centrism, moderatism, collectivism, communism, conservatism, conservativism, fundamentalism, segregationism, constitutionalism, democracy, social democracy, domino theory, elitism, extremism, fascism, federalism, imperialism, liberalism, meritocracy, libertarianism, monarchism, Negritude, Orleanism, progressivism, radicalism, reactionism, republicanism, rightism, socialism, theocracy, Utopianism, dovishness, hawkishness, unitarism, anti-democracy, neo-Marxism, Pan-Germanism, social liberalism, pan-Europeanism.

political orientation (noun)	leftism (noun)
an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation	the ideology of the political left; belief in or support of the tenets of the political left

Difference between political orientation and leftism

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