— nominalist , n. — nominalistic , adj. — nominalistically , adv.
/nom"euh nl iz'euhm/ , n.
(in medieval philosophy) the doctrine that general or abstract words do not stand for objectively existing entities and that universals are no more than names assigned to them. Cf. conceptualism, realism (def. 5a).
[ 1830-40; nominalisme. See NOMINAL, -ISM ]