Gradualism Definition

grăjo͝o-ə-lĭzəm
noun
The belief in or the policy of advancing toward a goal by gradual, often slow stages.
American Heritage Medicine
The principle of seeking to achieve social or political changes or goals gradually.
Webster's New World
The view that evolution proceeds by imperceptibly small, cumulative steps over long periods of time rather than by abrupt, major changes.
American Heritage Medicine

(biology) Belief that evolution proceeds at a steady pace, without the sudden development of new species or biological features from one generation to the next.

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Gradualism Sentence Examples

  • Under pressure from its rank and file, its strategy of reformist gradualism was being replaced by calls for revolution.

  • Convinced that gradual emancipation would merely stimulate the inter-state slave trade, and that the dangers of a mixed labour system were greater than those of emancipation in mass, he formally repudiated colonization in 1834; moreover, gradualism had become for him an unjustifiable compromise in a matter of religion and justice.

  • This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

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