Synonyms of meliorism

meliorism

noun

as in idealism

Related Words

• idealism
• hopefulness
• cheerfulness
• optimism
• rosiness
• brightness
• hope
• sunniness
• perkiness
• sanguinity
• bullishness

Dissimilar Words

• pessimism
• skepticism
• concern
• apprehension
• cynicism
• caution
• despair
• hopelessness
• desperation
• discouragement
• bearishness
• pragmatism
• realism
• gloom
• bleakness
• disheartenment
• cheerlessness
• dreariness
• gloominess

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of meliorism

Under their malign sway, as cost-benefit analysis became codified in government bureaus and standards of jurisprudence, previously bold Democrats reduced their dreams for betterment to feeble meliorism. — Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022

Goodhart reckons the positional nature of status — man’s envy plays a part in this puzzle, mind you — and the kind of economic meliorism that the center-left of his formative years applies to income inequality may fail to do the trick this time. — Jorge González-Gallarza Hernández, National Review, 6 Dec. 2020

To its critics, this modesty and meliorism represent cowardice. — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2017

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