defaultism
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editdefaultism (uncountable)
- An approach or situation in which something occurs by default, without being explicitly introduced.
- 2012, William Crotty, editor, The Obama Presidency: Promise and Performance, page 132:
- But, in being an African-American politician, [Obama] […] introduces race by default. This racial defaultism is what must be considered as far as a potential limitation in the president's bargaining power, despite whites' liberalization about race and race-related policy issues.
- 2019, Shalom Lappin, Chris Fox, The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, page 185:
- Defaultism
The defaultist view is that some conversational implicatures are default inferences—presumptive meanings—that the hearer makes unless given reason not to by the speaker.
- The, often misguided, belief that the circumstances surrounding an individual are the default for everyone else.