saviorism

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Belief in a savior. uncountable
    — On a universal plane, man's belief in his prospective immortality through saviorism has been breached by a theory of knowledge where he cannot accept saviorism; so he becomes responsible for himself […]
  2. A worldview according to which some people are saviors and others need to be saved by them. uncountable
    — I show how white men attempted to save brown women from brown men in colonial India. […] Spivak notes the efforts to build discourses of saviorism in thinking about Muslim women and Muslim men.

词形变化

saviourism alternative

词汇关系

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词源

From savior + -ism.
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