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noun
A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, uncountable
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noun
A doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: government, politics
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History
Etymology tree English voluntary Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English voluntarism From voluntary + -ism.
Across languages
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