ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌhau̇(ə)ˌrizəm noun
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Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Arthur Schopenhauer + English -ism
: the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer who taught that the essential or absolute reality is a blind and restless will manifesting itself as a will to live and that life is an evil to be cured only by overcoming the will to live — compare voluntarism