nominalism

English

Etymology

From French nominalisme. Surface etymology is nominal +‎ -ism

Noun

nominalism (countable and uncountable, plural nominalisms)

(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

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