suddenism

noun

1. A tendency for processes to occur suddenly rather than gradually.

   “In regard to our Dog-hole of an Earth, my own Conviction is that the great Law of Nature is "Graduality" & not "Suddenism", & that the Cataclysms which have disturbed our Crust are but the Exceptions which prove the Rule itself—”

   “Instead of gradualism, a lot of tradition and a little change, we find we have suddenism, no tradition and all change.”

2. The achievement of sudden enlightenment.

   “Unqualified suddenism is as impossible to maintain as unqualified gradualism.”