MELIORISM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The belief that the world can be made better by human effort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("meliorism" is a kind of...):

belief (any cognitive content held as true)

Derivation:

meliorist (a disputant who advocates reform)

Credits