"meliorism" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈmiːlɪəɹɪz(ə)m/ [UK] Forms: meliorisms [plural]
Etymology: From Latin melior (“better”) + -ism. Reportedly coined by British author George Eliot in her letters, published in 1877. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|melior||better}} Latin melior (“better”), {{suffix|en||ism}} + -ism Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} meliorism (countable and uncountable, plural meliorisms)
  1. The view or doctrine that the world can be improved through human effort (often understood as an intermediate outlook between optimism and pessimism). Wikipedia link: George Eliot, meliorism Tags: countable, uncountable Derived forms: meliorist, melioristic, melioristically Translations (the view that the world can be improved through human effort): мелиори́зм (meliorízm) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-meliorism-en-noun-7qQi~MCH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ism

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