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The ideology of striving for 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
ideology of striving or competition; achievement-orientation
worship or idealization of success
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