English
Etymology
From success + -ism, probably after the Japanese (see Translations).
Pronunciation
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Noun
successism
- The ideology of striving or competition; achievement-orientation.
- The worship or idealization of success
Quotations
1999: risshishugi: successism, achievement-orientation, self-help — (in the glossary, at page 231 of A History of Japan - From Stone Age to Superpower, by Kenneth G. Henshall, Palgrave)
Date unknown: Successism is the mistaken application of worldly standards of success and failure to the work of the ministry of the church. — John A. Kohler, III in Successism and the Church''
Translations
Japanese: ��主義 (�������, seik�shugi)
Category:English nouns ending in -ism
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