Suddenism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A tendency for processes to occur suddenly rather than gradually.

    "In regard to our Dog-hole of an Earth, my own Conviction is that the great Law of Nature is "Graduality" & not "Suddenism", & that the Cataclysms which have disturbed our Crust are but the Exceptions which prove the Rule itself—"

  2. 2
    The achievement of sudden enlightenment.

    "Unqualified suddenism is as impossible to maintain as unqualified gradualism."

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"In regard to our Dog-hole of an Earth, my own Conviction is that the great Law of Nature is "Graduality" & not "Suddenism", & that the Cataclysms which have disturbed our Crust are but the Exceptions which prove the Rule itself—"

Etymology

From sudden + -ism.

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