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schopenhauerism

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Scho⋅pen⋅hau⋅er⋅ism

[shoh-puhn-hou-uh-riz-uhm]
–noun
the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.

Origin:
1880–85; Schopenhauer + -ism
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