alarmism

noun

alarm·ism ə-ˈlär-ˌmi-zəm

: the often unwarranted exciting of fears or warning of danger

alarmist

ə-ˈlär-mist

noun or adjective

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Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau — a seasoned veteran of trade battles with Trump — spoke with the president-elect Tuesday and hardly expressed hair-on-fire alarmism afterward. —

Neil Irwin, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024 Lots of people conflate safety engineering with alarmism. —

IEEE Spectrum, 14 Sep. 2017 Right-wingers spread alarmism, rolling out dozens of anti-trans bathroom laws across the nation, then using them to introduce other transphobic ideas into local conservative platforms, all of them coming straight out of the moral panic playbook. —

Aja Romano, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 Harris’s revised fracking stance reflects a broader emphasis that pushes overregulation and climate alarmism rather than reliability and cost. —

André Béliveau, National Review, 19 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for alarmism