Word.ws English Dictionary

meliorisms

meliorisms is the plural of meliorism.

Meaning of meliorism

Noun

meliorism (countable and uncountable, plural meliorisms)

  1. The view or doctrine that the world can be improved through human effort (often understood as an intermediate outlook between optimism and pessimism).
    • At the convention, the official mood was traditional Methodist meliorism.1966 May 6, “Forever Beginning”, in Time

Questions about meliorisms

What is meliorisms the plural of?
Meliorisms is the plural of meliorism.

Words near meliorisms in the dictionary

  1. meliorator
  2. meliorators
  3. meliorbiosis
  4. meliorbiotic
  5. meliorism
  6. meliorisms
  7. meliorist
  8. melioristic
  9. melioristically
  10. meliorists
  11. meliority

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: meliorisms (page history and authors); meliorism (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: “meliorisms.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/meliorisms. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.