Definitions
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- noun The belief that all difficulties have benign solutions, often of a technocratic nature.
- noun The providing of a
solution or solutions to a customer or client.
Etymologies
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From solution + -ism
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Examples
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For all we know our American obsession with solutionism might someday produce a solution.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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For all we know our American obsession with solutionism might someday produce a solution.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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The increasing symptoms of two-state solutionism have rendered Western leaders incapable of even offering a "pledge" of " fairness".
qms commented on the word solutionism
His manner is cheerful and breezy,
Asserting all remedies easy,
But airy solutionism
Is trumped by his Putinism
And more than foolhardy - he's sleazy.
October 11, 2016