Definitions

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  • noun The belief that all difficulties have benign solutions, often of a technocratic nature.
  • noun The providing of a solution or solutions to a customer or client.

Etymologies

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From solution +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • For all we know our American obsession with solutionism might someday produce a solution.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • For all we know our American obsession with solutionism might someday produce a solution.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • The increasing symptoms of two-state solutionism have rendered Western leaders incapable of even offering a "pledge" of " fairness".

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  • His manner is cheerful and breezy,

    Asserting all remedies easy,

    But airy solutionism

    Is trumped by his Putinism

    And more than foolhardy - he's sleazy.

    October 11, 2016