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voluntarism

Syllables: vo·lun·ta·ri·sm/ˈvɒ.lən.t(ə.)ɹɪ.zəm/US/ˈvɑ.lən.t(ə.)ɹɪ.zəm/

voluntarism noun: a reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.

Noun

voluntarism (countable and uncountable, plural voluntarisms)

  1. (US) A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.
  2. A doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect.
  3. 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.

voluntarism meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

voluntarism in Tamil

தன்விருப்பார்வக் கோட்பாடு, தன்னார்வக் கொள்கை

voluntarism in Urdu

voluntarism
ارادیت erādiyat

voluntarism in Bengali

স্বেচ্ছাসেবা

Forms of voluntarism

pluralvoluntarisms

Origin of voluntarism

From voluntary + -ism.

Words formed from voluntarism

Questions about voluntarism

What does voluntarism mean?
Voluntarism means a reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.
What is voluntarism in Tamil?
Voluntarism in Tamil is தன்விருப்பார்வக் கோட்பாடு, தன்னார்வக் கொள்கை. See Voluntarism meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is voluntarism?
Voluntarism is a noun.
How do you pronounce voluntarism?
Voluntarism is pronounced /ˈvɒ.lən.t(ə.)ɹɪ.zəm/ (UK).
What is the plural of voluntarism?
The plural of voluntarism is voluntarisms.

Words near voluntarism in the dictionary

  1. voluntaries
  2. voluntariest
  3. voluntarily
  4. voluntariness
  5. voluntarinesses
  6. voluntarism
  7. voluntarisms
  8. voluntarist
  9. voluntaristic
  10. voluntarists
  11. voluntarity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: voluntarism (page history and authors); voluntarism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ارادیت (Urdu) (page history and authors); voluntarism (Bengali Wiktionary) (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.

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