Usually means: Belief that world can improve.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word meliorism:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. meliorism: Merriam-Webster
  2. meliorism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. meliorism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. meliorism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. meliorism: Vocabulary.com
  6. meliorism: Wordnik
  7. meliorism: Wiktionary
  8. meliorism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. meliorism: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Meliorism, meliorism: Dictionary.com
  11. Meliorism (politics), Meliorism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Meliorism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. meliorism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. meliorism: Rhymezone
  15. Meliorism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. meliorism: FreeDictionary.org
  17. meliorism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. meliorism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. meliorism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Ism Book (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meliorism: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (meliorism)

noun:  The view or doctrine that the world can be improved through human effort (often understood as an intermediate outlook between optimism and pessimism).

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