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MELIORISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does meliorism mean?
• MELIORISM (noun)
The noun MELIORISM has 1 sense:
1. the belief that the world can be made better by human effort
Familiarity information: MELIORISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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)
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