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volunteerism

noun

Etymology

From volunteer + -ism.

  1. derived from voluntārius — “willing, voluntary”
  2. borrowed from voluntaire
  3. suffixed as volunteerism — “volunteer + ism”

Definitions

  1. Reliance on volunteers to perform a social or educational function.

  2. The tendency to volunteer

    The tendency to volunteer; the activity of volunteering.

    • His volunteerism eventually burned him out.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for volunteerism. 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