ironism

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Etymology

Coined by American philosopher Richard Rorty, from Ancient Greek εἴρων (eírōn, “one who says less than they think”). By surface analysis, irony +‎ -ism.

Noun

ironism (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) A state of doubt regarding one's own "vocabulary" (set of communicative beliefs) that cannot be removed by making arguments in that vocabulary.
    • 2002, Keith Tester, The Life and Times of Post-Modernity, Routledge, →ISBN, page 149:
      Perhaps Rorty's pragmatics of liberal ironism is a better way of understanding the implication of the existence of disdained others on the post-modern.

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