A tendency or practice of engaging in controversy; the habit of creating or prolonging disputes and disagreements.
From controversial plus the suffix -ism, which creates ideologies or tendencies from adjectives.
This word captures something interesting: some people seem drawn to arguments—they have a whole 'ism' around making things controversial, which psychologists might study as a personality trait.
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