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means A political and social outlook holding that deliberate reform, guided by reason and science, should steadily improve society rather than leave it to tradition or unchecked markets.

from Built from 'progress' (Latin progressus, 'a going forward,' from gradi, 'to step or walk') plus the suffix '-ism,' which turns a notion into a movement. The term crystallized as a political label in the late 1800s and especially around the turn of the 20th century, when reformers in Europe and the U.S. rallied around the idea that society could be deliberately steered 'forward' through policy, science, and regulation — the word simply nailed a flag to the Latin root's old metaphor of walking ahead.