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Voluntariness vs Voluntarism - What's the difference?

voluntariness | voluntarism |

As nouns the difference between voluntariness and voluntarism

is that voluntariness is the condition of being voluntary while voluntarism is (us) a reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.

voluntariness

English

Noun

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  • The condition of being voluntary

    • voluntarism

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia voluntarism) (-)
  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * voluntarist * voluntaristic

    See also

    * voluntaryism English words suffixed with -ism