voluntarism
Meaning
- (US, countable, uncountable) A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.
- (countable, uncountable) A doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect.
- (countable, uncountable) The political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.
Synonyms
Translations
volontarisme
voluntarismo
Voluntarismus
voluntarisme
volontarismo
voluntarismoEtymology
From voluntary + -ism.
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