solutionist

A solver of problems or puzzles.

Adjective

  1. Advocating or working towards a solution to some problem (often used to imply that no simple solution exists).
    • The ideology of solutionism is thus essential to helping Silicon Valley maintain its image. The technology press — along with the meme-hustlers at the TED conference — are only happy to play up any solutionist...
    • Some promote MOOCS as the future of lower-cost higher eduction, while others lament them a solutionist privatization of educational practice. - 2013 August 27, Ian Bogost, “The Condensed Classroom”, in James Bennet,...
    • Silicon Valley prides itself on a solutionist worldview. Founders are told to think of a problem and then build a company that solves it. They invent problems no one has just to say it's been fixed. - 2015 February 9,...

Origin

From solution + -ist.

Forms

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solutionism

Noun

  1. A solver of problems or puzzles.

Forms

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