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French
Etymology
à quoi bon? (“to what end? what's the use?”) + -isme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.kwa.bɔ.nism/ ~ /a.kwa.bɔ.nizm/
Noun
àquoibonisme m (uncountable)
- a defeatist philosophy that doubts the utility of anything
1985, Le signe et le singe, Georges Morel, page 92:Dilemme avec des deux aspects duquel il jouera, à la différence du Soi terrorisé et terrorisant de la Révolution française qui ne voulait pas composer avec la liberté absolue : depuis cette époque le nihilisme sceptique s’est faufilé dans l’histoire, avec son fameux àquoibonisme.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)