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whateverism

whateverism

English

Noun

whateverism (uncountable)

  1. (politics) Adherence to the Two Whatevers: "We will resolutely uphold whatever policy decisions Chairman Mao made, and unswervingly follow whatever instructions Chairman Mao gave."
  2. (rare) Belief in whatever; apathy, nothingarianism.
    • 2005, Christian Smith, Melinda Lundquist Denton, Soul searching: the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers
      Most religious communities' central problem is not teen rebellion but teenagers' benign “whateverism.”
    • 2014, Ana Deumert, Sociolinguistics and Mobile Communication
      In Always On, Naomi Baron [] argues that because we write more than ever before, an inattention to how we write has crept in, a sense of 'linguistic whateverism'.
  3. Synonym of ism (an ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism)