Definition of VOLUNTARISM

voluntarism

Meanings

Plural: voluntarisms

Noun

  • A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.
  • A doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect.
  • 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.

Origin / Etymology

From voluntary + -ism.

Scrabble Score: 16

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Words With Friends Score: 21

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