whateverism
English
Etymology
Noun
whateverism (countable and uncountable, plural whateverisms)
- (politics) Adherence to the Two Whatevers: "We will resolutely uphold whatever policy decisions Chairman Mao made, and unswervingly follow whatever instructions Chairman Mao gave."
- (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'.
- 2005, Christian Smith, Melinda Lundquist Denton, Soul searching: the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers
- Synonym of ism (an ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism)