deviationist

English

Etymology

deviation +‎ -ist

Noun

deviationist (plural deviationists)

1. One who deviates from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of Communism.
   • 2007 June 13, William Grimes, “Surviving Under Mao: A Slacker’s Guide”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Theirs was the confession, and Mr. Kang turned them out by the dozen throughout his life, expiating one supposed crime after another by denouncing himself as a reactionary element, a deviationist and whatever else was on the political menu that day.

   • 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 121:

     For the Italian journalist Enzo Biagi, he recalled the ride in the "black crow," the prison truck in which he was accompanied by other "deviationists . . . terrorists, Trotskyites, ex-Social Democrats."

Related terms

• deviationism

Translations

One who deviates from accepted beliefs or policies

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反對者／反对者 (zh) (fǎnduìzhe), 異議分子／异议分子 (zh) (yìyì fēnzǐ)

• Dutch: dissident (nl)
• Finnish: toisinajattelija (fi)
• French: dissident (fr) m, dissidente (fr) f
• German: Dissident (de) m, Dissidentin (de) f, Dissenter m (Great Britain), Dissenterin f (Great Britain), Abweichler (de) m
• Greek: αμφισβητίας (el) m (amfisvitías)
• Japanese: 反体制 (はんたいせい, hantaisei), 反体制派 (はんたいせいは, hantaiseiha), 反対者 (はんたいしゃ, hantaisha)
• Korean: 반대자 (ko) (bandaeja)
• Polish: dysydent (pl) m
• Portuguese: divergente (pt) m
• Russian: диссиде́нт (ru) m (dissidént), диссиде́нтка (ru) f (dissidéntka), инакомы́слящий (ru) m (inakomýsljaščij), инакомы́слящая (ru) f (inakomýsljaščaja), диссе́нтер (ru) m (dissɛ́ntɛr) (church dissenter)