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Malthusianism Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -ism

Malthusianism has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence

2

The viewpoint that the population will always grow faster than the food supply that it needs to survive and prosper.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
economic theory
Rhyming Words
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