Definitions For Voluntarism

Noun

VOLUNTARISM. (countable and uncountable, plural VOLUNTARISMs) (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

Etymology

from voluntary + ism.

See also

voluntaryism