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Etymology

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From French nominalisme. By surface analysis, nominal +‎ -ism.

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Noun

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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.
    Antonym: realism
    • 2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 11, in God, Human, Animal, Machine [] , →ISBN:
      Blumenberg's thesis, which has since been reiterated by a number of philosophers and historians, is that nominalism, as it became widespread in Protestant theology, led to the Enlightenment, disenchantment, and the scientific revolution.
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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French nominalisme. By surface analysis, nominal +‎ -ism.

Noun

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nominalism n (uncountable)

  1. nominalism

Declension

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Declension of nominalism
singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative nominalism nominalismul
genitive-dative nominalism nominalismului
vocative nominalismule

Swedish

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Noun

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nominalism c

  1. nominalism

Declension

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Declension of nominalism
nominative genitive
singular indefinite nominalism nominalisms
definite nominalismen nominalismens
plural indefinite
definite

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