ESSENTIALISM


Meaning of ESSENTIALISM in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ -ˌli-zəm ]

noun

Date: 1927

1. : an educational theory that ideas and skills basic to a culture should be taught to all alike by time-tested methods — compare progressivism

2. : a philosophical theory ascribing ultimate reality to essence embodied in a thing perceptible to the senses — compare nominalism

3. : the practice of regarding something (as a presumed human trait) as having innate existence or universal validity rather than as being a social, ideological, or intellectual construct

• es·sen·tial·ist -list adjective or noun

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.