affirmativism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

affirmative +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

affirmativism (uncountable)

  1. An attitude of affirming something without necessarily providing the proof or the theoretical backing.
    • 1931, Percival Chubb, On the Religious Frontier: From an Outpost of Ethical Religion‎[1]:
      So, once more, when we search below the negations and repudiations of the frontier we come upon a germinal positivism and affirmativism.
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