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voluntaryism

voluntaryism is the alternative form 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.

Forms of voluntaryism

pluralvoluntaryisms

Questions about voluntaryism

What is voluntaryism the alternative form of?
Voluntaryism is the alternative form of voluntarism.

Words near voluntaryism in the dictionary

  1. voluntary muscle
  2. voluntary muscles
  3. voluntary waste
  4. voluntary wastes
  5. voluntary work
  6. voluntaryism
  7. voluntaryisms
  8. voluntaryist
  9. voluntaryistic
  10. voluntaryists
  11. voluntas ordinata

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