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/ˈmiːlɪəɹɪz(ə)m/ · noun
The view or doctrine that the world can be improved through human effort (often understood as an intermediate outlook between optimism and pessimism)..
At the convention, the official mood was traditional Methodist meliorism.
Enclaves of meritocratic and virtuous sociability, the lodges exuded […] a thoroughgoing meliorism.
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Meliorism means The view or doctrine that the world can be improved through human effort (often understood as an intermediate outlook between optimism and pessimism)..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
At the convention, the official mood was traditional Methodist meliorism.
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