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Voluntarism vs Volunteering - What's the difference?

voluntarism | volunteering |

As nouns the difference between voluntarism and volunteering

is that voluntarism is (us) a reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism while volunteering is the act of volunteering; the action of the verb volunteer .

As a verb volunteering is

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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

    volunteering

    English

    (wikipedia volunteering)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act of volunteering; the action of the verb volunteer

    • See also

    * community service

    Verb

    (head)