inevitabilism
nounEtymology
From inevitable + -ism.
- borrowed from inevitable
Definitions
The belief that certain developments are impossible to avoid
The belief that certain developments are impossible to avoid; determinism.
- Gramsci identified such inevitabilism and mechanical determinism as a form of consolation during a time of defeat: ‘I have been defeated for the moment but the tide of history is working for me in the long term’.
- Another unscientific characterization of historical processes is inevitabilism, or the idea that history is the result of an unfolding process in which stages follow one from another in a necessary order, like the pages of a book.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for inevitabilism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA