noun

• Support for or advocacy of social reform.

  ‘the country is seen as a bastion of social progressivism’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Progressivism could not have made the strides it did, had it not been for the advent of what we would call modern journalism.’
  • ‘Progressivism became more important as a political movement than socialism ever did.’
  • ‘Progressivism in education is not highly developed.’
  • ‘As a result of this diversity, this society has displayed a unique blend of traditionalism and progressivism.’
  • ‘She has criticised educational progressivism and defended the monarchy.’
  • ‘Student councils and other forms of student government became widespread because of the influence of American progressivism.’
  • ‘Their progressivism lay in their support for prohibition.’
  • ‘He shifted increasingly toward progressivism.’
  • ‘He presents progressivism as the dominant paradigm at the beginning of the twentieth century.’
  • ‘Progressivism demands a government of this kind that solves and eliminates all problems.’