Definition of impossibilism in English:
impossibilism
noun ɪmˈpɒsɪbɪlɪz(ə)mimˈpäsəbəˌlizəm
mass nounBelief in ideas or policy, especially on social reform, that are held to be unrealizable or impractical.
Example sentencesExamples
- The most stratospheric flights of that speech exuded the utopian impossibilism which he attacked when practised by the self-indulgent Old Left.
Derivatives
noun
He also clarifies his brand of socialism, though, separating him from the scientific socialists (sometimes called impossibilists) that characterized much of the leadership.
Example sentencesExamples
- Feld calls him an ‘impossibilist’ in his refusal to compromise.