voluntarism
English
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[edit]Noun
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voluntarism (countable and uncountable, plural voluntarisms)
- (US) A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.
- (philosophy) A doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect.
- (politics) 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.
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[edit]Romanian
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[edit]Borrowed from French volontarisme.
Noun
[edit]voluntarism n (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | voluntarism | voluntarismul |
| genitive-dative | voluntarism | voluntarismului |
| vocative | voluntarismule | |