Voluntarism

Definitions

1. A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.
   US, countable, uncountable
2. A doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect.
   countable, uncountable
3. 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.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

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