Affirmativism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An attitude of affirming something without necessarily providing the proof or the theoretical backing. uncountable

    "So, once more, when we search below the negations and repudiations of the frontier we come upon a germinal positivism and affirmativism."

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"So, once more, when we search below the negations and repudiations of the frontier we come upon a germinal positivism and affirmativism."

Etymology

From affirmative + -ism.

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