inflationism

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noun

A policy or belief that encourages inflation.

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Meanings

nouninflationism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableeconomicsA policy or belief that encourages inflation.
  2. uncountablemetaphysicsA position holding that a given phenomenon (such as truth, meaning, or a property) has a substantive underlying nature, in opposition to deflationism.

    ...they should neither believe in inflationism nor in deflationism.

    2022, Rasmus Jaksland, “Disagreement in metametaphysical dispute”, in Synthese, volume 200, number 1, →DOI, page 207

Origin

From inflation + -ism.

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Translations

Japanese インフレ主義
  • インフレ主義metaphysical position holding that a phenomenon has a substantive underlying nature
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