Meanings
adjectivevoluntaristic (comparative more voluntaristic, superlative most voluntaristic)
comparative more voluntaristic · superlative most voluntaristic
- Pertaining to voluntary activity; supporting or promoting voluntarism.
Open space, the incursions of commercialism and the growing prestige of polite society produced an urban environment increasingly consonant with the voluntaristic collective culture of the philosophes.
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 183
Origin
From voluntarist + -ic or voluntary + -istic.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Polish woluntarystyczny
- woluntarystycznyrelated to voluntarism
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