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warism en · NOUN

Etymology

From war + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Belief that war is justifiable in principle and can be justified in actual cases.
    • He argues that in our own contemporary Western culture, warism is a dominant outlook. 2016, Michaeleen Kelly, "Just War Theory as Ideological and Combatant Role Confusion," International Journal of Peace Studies 21(2):
    • The book opens with an examination of warism, the uncritical presumption that war is morally justified, even morally required. 1991, Patrick G. Coy, Review of From Warism to Pacifism: A Moral Continuum, by D. L. Cady. International Social Science Review, 66(4),, page 185:

Antonyms

pacifism

Synonyms

bellicism