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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

affirmativism en · NOUN

Etymology

From affirmative + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) An attitude of affirming something without necessarily providing the proof or the theoretical backing.
    • So, once more, when we search below the negations and repudiations of the frontier we come upon a germinal positivism and affirmativism. 1931, Percival Chubb, On the Religious Frontier: From an Outpost of Ethical Religion: