meliorism
noun
the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
Example Sentences
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The utopian has a better story to tell; the meliorist leaves us with a better world. ♦
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2016
But Coates and Alexander warn against this kind of meliorist thinking.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 14, 2015
He is a self-acknowledged meliorist, one who believes that change is for the better and people can accelerate the beneficial process.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was, rather, a meliorist who hoped for better things, though tardy to come; who believed, in her own pungent phrase, "in the slow contagion of good."
From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Richard Burton
John's interest was caught for the moment by the word, "meliorist."
From Westways by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
