whateverism

English

Etymology

whatever +‎ -ism

Noun

whateverism (countable and uncountable, plural whateverisms)

1. (politics) Adherence to the Two Whatevers: "We will resolutely uphold whatever policy decisions Chairman Mao made, and unswervingly follow whatever instructions Chairman Mao gave."
2. (rare) Belief in whatever; apathy, nothingarianism.
   • 2005, Christian Smith, Melinda Lundquist Denton, Soul searching: the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers

     Most religious communities' central problem is not teen rebellion but teenagers' benign “whateverism.”

   • 2014, Ana Deumert, Sociolinguistics and Mobile Communication:

     In Always On, Naomi Baron […] argues that because we write more than ever before, an inattention to how we write has crept in, a sense of 'linguistic whateverism'.

3. Synonym of ism (an ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism)