declensionism
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Etymology edit
declension + -ism
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
declensionism (uncountable)
- A belief in a declining trend in a history.
- 2002, Melvyn Stokes, The state of U.S. history, page 74:
- By breaking free of it, historians could shed the dualisms that now entrap them, and escape the declensionism - the longing for the lost alternative