Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

saviorism

/ˈseɪvjəɹɪzm/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sav-ior-ism
IPA: /ˈseɪvjəɹɪzm/

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Belief in a savior.

Uncountable

noun

A worldview according to which some people are saviors and others need to be saved by them.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"On a universal plane, man's belief in his prospective immortality through saviorism has been breached by a theory of knowledge where he cannot accept saviorism; so he becomes responsible for himself […]"
"I show how white men attempted to save brown women from brown men in colonial India. […] Spivak notes the efforts to build discourses of saviorism in thinking about Muslim women and Muslim men."

Etymology

From savior + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: savior

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

saviourism (alternative)

Phrases

white saviorism

Frequently Paired Words

white saviorism

Questions

How do you pronounce saviorism?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈseɪvjəɹɪzm/.
What does saviorism mean?: Belief in a savior.
Where does saviorism come from?: From savior + -ism.

How to pronounce saviorism

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