quietism
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A stance of calm passivity, often the view that certain philosophical disputes should simply be dissolved rather than solved.
Some read the later Wittgenstein as advocating a quietism that lets metaphysical questions fade away.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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