voluntarism
English
noun
Definitions
- (US) A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.
- (philosophy) A doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect.
- (politics) 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.
Etymology
Suffix from English voluntary.
Origin
English
voluntary
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- involuntary English
- nonvoluntary English
- semivoluntary English
- unvoluntary English
- voluntarily English
- voluntariness English
- voluntarist English
- voluntaristic English
- voluntary English
- voluntaryist English
- volunteer English
- Voluntarismus German
- volontaire French
- волюнтаризм Russian
- *voluntarie Middle English
- voluntar Ido
- boluntaryo Tagalog