Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine that all things are governed by chance or accident.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance.
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- noun The
doctrine that all things exist or are controlled bychance .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"For free" is nothing worse than a "casualism," according to The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style.
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This was no obvious gaffe as it would have been had it emanated from the lips of George Bush, oh no, this was perhaps a "knowing casualism".
Look, Obama just doesn't make gaffes, OK? The Orator 2009
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It was a sort of telepathic warning that he was not taking his personal disaster with quite the same decent casualism that everyone else was prepared to afford it and they were all, in spite of their own worries, a little embarrassed by it.
Traitor's Purse Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1941
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I believe that we have great opportunities to create 'contemporary decoration that is part of our digital and information age, part of our shrinking borderless world, and part of our new movement of individualism, casualism, and spiritualism.
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This despite the usagist Ted Bernstein’s condemnation of it as “a casualism that has no place in serious writing” at bastions of good grammar like The New York Times.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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This despite the usagist Ted Bernstein’s condemnation of it as “a casualism that has no place in serious writing” at bastions of good grammar like The New York Times.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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This despite the usagist Ted Bernstein’s condemnation of it as “a casualism that has no place in serious writing” at bastions of good grammar like The New York Times.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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This despite the usagist Ted Bernstein’s condemnation of it as “a casualism that has no place in serious writing” at bastions of good grammar like The New York Times.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
jmjarmstrong commented on the word casualism
JM worries about the introduction of casualism as a strategic planning methodology.
September 29, 2009