neartermist

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English

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Etymology

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From near-term +‎ -ist.

Noun

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neartermist (plural neartermists)

  1. (ethics, philosophy) A believer or follower of neartermism.
    Coordinate term: longtermist
    • 2022 September 9, Theodore Leinwand, “Neartermism and longtermism aren’t at odds”, in The Washington Post[1]:
      Longtermists are in daily conversation with neartermists. It’s a red herring to argue that “abandoning what would most help people on Earth today isn’t exactly ethically sound.”

Adjective

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neartermist (not comparable)

  1. (ethics, philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting neartermism.
    Coordinate term: longtermist
    • 2022 December 9, Jennifer Szalai, “Effective Altruism Warned of Risks. Did It Also Incentivize Them?”, in The New York Times[2]:
      But last summer Bankman-Fried was telling The New Yorker’s Gideon Lewis-Kraus something quite different. “He told me that he never had a bed-nets phase, and considered neartermist causes — global health and poverty — to be more emotionally driven,” Lewis-Kraus wrote in August.