From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Terrorism \Ter"ror*ism\, noun [Cf. F. terrorisme.]
1. The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation. --Jefferson.
2. The practise of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimindation or coercion or instilling fear [syn: {act of terrorism}, {terrorist act}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "terrorism": Bolshevikism, Bolshevism, Carbonarism, Castroism, Jacobinism, Maoism, Sinn Feinism, acuteness, anarchism, animality, argumentum baculinum, atrocity, barbarity, big stick, bloodlust, brutality, despotism, destructiveness, domination, domineering, extremity, fascism, ferociousness, fierceness, force, furiousness, harshness, heavy hand, high hand, horrification, impetuosity, inclemency, inhumanity, intensity, iron boot, iron hand, iron heel, malignity, mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness, oppression, pitilessness, reign of terror, revolutionism, rigor, roughness, sans-culotterie, sans-culottism, savagery, scaremongering, severity, sharpness, syndicalism, terror tactics, terroristic tactics, terrorization, thought control, tyranny, ungentleness, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, violence, virulence
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