The counterfactual held as identity. Faces back — I would have been a—
Every family dinner ended in wouldism.
Etymologywould + -ism. Pairs with couldism: same distance from the real, opposite directions.
NoteDeployed in the wild before it was formally used — 'hackification could have occurred' is a couldism aimed at a real event.
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No documented use yet. Every word in every dictionary started exactly here, and the only thing that ever moved one was somebody using it where other people could see.