Associations to the word «Gradualism»

Wiktionary

GRADUALISM, noun. (biology) The belief that evolution proceeds at a steady pace, without the sudden development of new species or biological features from one generation to the next.
GRADUALISM, noun. (transferred sense) The belief that some phenomenon occurs gradually over a long period of time.
GRADUALISM, noun. (politics) The belief that change ought to be brought about in small, discrete increments rather than in abrupt strokes such as revolutions or uprisings.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne