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suddenism

noun

Etymology

From sudden + -ism.

  1. inherited from sodeyn
  2. suffixed as suddenism — “sudden + -ism”

Definitions

  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—
    • Instead of gradualism, a lot of tradition and a little change, we find we have suddenism, no tradition and all change.

  2. The achievement of sudden enlightenment.

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

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA