suddenism

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tendency for processes to occur suddenly rather than gradually.
    — In regard to our Dog-hole of an Earth, my own Conviction is that the great Law of Nature is "Graduality" & not "Suddenism", & that the Cataclysms which have disturbed our Crust are but the Exceptions which prove the Rule itself—
  2. The achievement of sudden enlightenment.
    — Unqualified suddenism is as impossible to maintain as unqualified gradualism.

词形变化

suddenisms plural

词汇关系

反义词
gradualism

词源

From sudden + -ism.
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