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voluntarism

  • /ˈvɒ.lən.t(ə.)ɹɪ.zəm/ UK
  • /ˈvɑ.lən.t(ə.)ɹɪ.zəm/ US

noun voluntarisms

  1. US, countable, uncountable A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.
  2. countable, uncountable A doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect.
  3. countable, uncountable 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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@misc{voluntarism_2026,
  title = {voluntarism},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/voluntarism},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}