meliorism
belief that the world can be improved
Root
- melior: better
Other words with the melior root
- ameliorate: to make better or less bad
- amelioration: the act or process of making something better
- ameliorative: improving or meant to make better
Melior means better. Meliorism is the belief that things can be made better, not magically, but by effort.
Her meliorism survived bad news because she cared more about improvement than purity.
Meliorism sits between naive optimism and despair. It does not say the world is already good. It says better is possible, and that human effort can help move things that way.