saviorism

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/ˈseɪvjəɹɪzm/

noun

Belief in a savior.

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Meanings

nounsaviorism (uncountable)

alternative saviourism

  1. uncountableBelief in a savior.

    On a universal plane, man's belief in his prospective immortality through saviorism has been breached by a theory of knowledge where he cannot accept saviorism; so he becomes responsible for himself […]

    2014, Joseph Isaac Abrahams, Terra Incognita: A Psychoanalyst Explores the Human Soul, page 154
  2. uncountablehuman sciencesA worldview according to which some people are saviors and others need to be saved by them.

    I show how white men attempted to save brown women from brown men in colonial India. […] Spivak notes the efforts to build discourses of saviorism in thinking about Muslim women and Muslim men.

    2016, Heather Ashley Hayes, Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars

Origin

From savior + -ism.

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APA

saviorism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/saviorism

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“saviorism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/saviorism. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “saviorism,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/saviorism.

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