voluntarism
English
Noun
voluntarism (countable and uncountable, plural voluntarisms)
- (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.
Derived terms
See also
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French volontarisme.
Declension
declension of voluntarism (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) voluntarism | voluntarismul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) voluntarism | voluntarismului |
| vocative | voluntarismule | |
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