meliorism

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/ˈmiːlɪəɹɪz(ə)m/(UK)

Definition of meliorism

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noun

(countable, uncountable)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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From Latin melior (“better”) + -ism. Reportedly coined by British author George Eliot in her letters, published in 1877.

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