nominalism

English

Etymology

From French nominalisme. Surface etymology is nominal +‎ -ism

Noun

nominalism (countable and uncountable, plural nominalisms)

1. (philosophy) A doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects.

Antonyms

• realism

Translations

doctrine

• Armenian: նոմինալիզմ (hy) (nominalizm)
• Czech: nominalismus m
• Finnish: nominalismi (fi)
• Greek: ονοματοκρατία (el) f (onomatokratía)

• Irish: ainmníochas m
• Portuguese: nominalismo m
• Russian: номинализм (ru) (nominalizm)
• Turkish: adcılık (tr)

Anagrams

• misnominal