Meanings
plural neartermists
- ethicsA believer or follower of neartermism.
Longtermists are in daily conversation with neartermists. It’s a red herring to argue that “abandoning what would most help people on Earth today isn’t exactly ethically sound.”
2022 September 9, Theodore Leinwand, “Neartermism and longtermism aren’t at odds”, in The Washington Post
- not comparableethicsOf, pertaining to or supporting neartermism.
But last summer Bankman-Fried was telling The New Yorker’s Gideon Lewis-Kraus something quite different. “He told me that he never had a bed-nets phase, and considered neartermist causes — global health and poverty — to be more emotionally driven,” Lewis-Kraus wrote in August.
2022 December 9, Jennifer Szalai, “Effective Altruism Warned of Risks. Did It Also Incentivize Them?”, in The New York Times
Origin
Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
neartermist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neartermist
“neartermist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neartermist. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “neartermist,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neartermist.
Source: neartermist on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.