Word.ws English Dictionary

feel-goodism

feel-goodism noun: a feel-good attitude or approach.

Noun

feel-goodism (uncountable)

  1. A feel-good attitude or approach.
    • I despise the cheap feel-goodism of inspirational cliches, especially when tied to any sport (baseball, anyone?), and I was pleased to learn that fiction writer Earl Stanley Gardner had to take a roundabout way to discover his calling.2005, Steve Abbott, Steve Abbott Greatest Hits, page 12
    • One thing is certain: This sort of programmatic “feel-goodism” falls short of the more radical biblical unity that is the subject of so much admonishment and instruction in letters to the early church.2009, Dave Rahn, Terry D. Linhart, Evangelism Remixed

Origin of feel-goodism

From feel-good + -ism.

Questions about feel-goodism

What does feel-goodism mean?
Feel-goodism means a feel-good attitude or approach.
What part of speech is feel-goodism?
Feel-goodism is a noun.

Words near feel-goodism in the dictionary

  1. feel-good
  2. feel-good factor
  3. feel-good factors
  4. feel-gooderies
  5. feel-goodery
  6. feel-goodism
  7. feelable
  8. feelbad
  9. feele
  10. feeled
  11. feelefold

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: feel-goodism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “feel-goodism.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/feel-goodism. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.