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saviourism

saviourism is the alternative form of saviorism.

Meaning of saviorism

Noun

saviorism (uncountable)

  1. Belief in a savior.
    • On a universal plane, man's belief in his prospective immortality through saviorism has been breached by a theory of knowledge where he cannot accept saviorism; so he becomes responsible for himself […]2014, Joseph Isaac Abrahams, Terra Incognita: A Psychoanalyst Explores the Human Soul, page 154
  2. A worldview according to which some people are saviors and others need to be saved by them.
    • I show how white men attempted to save brown women from brown men in colonial India. […] Spivak notes the efforts to build discourses of saviorism in thinking about Muslim women and Muslim men.2016, Heather Ashley Hayes, Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars

Origin of saviourism

From saviour + -ism.

Words formed from saviourism

Questions about saviourism

What is saviourism the alternative form of?
Saviourism is the alternative form of saviorism.

Words near saviourism in the dictionary

  1. saviour sibling
  2. saviour siblings
  3. saviouress
  4. saviouresses
  5. saviourhood
  6. saviourism
  7. saviouristic
  8. saviourless
  9. saviours
  10. saviourship
  11. Savita

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