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voluntarisms

voluntarisms is the plural of voluntarism.

Meaning of voluntarism

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.

Questions about voluntarisms

What is voluntarisms the plural of?
Voluntarisms is the plural of voluntarism.

Words near voluntarisms in the dictionary

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

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