nominalism

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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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.

   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.

Derived terms

• antinominalism

Related terms

• nominality
• nominalness

Translations

doctrine

• Armenian: նոմինալիզմ (hy) (nominalizm)
• Czech: nominalismus m
• Finnish: nominalismi (fi)
• Greek: ονοματοκρατία (el) f (onomatokratía), νομιναλισμός (el) m (nominalismós)
• Irish: ainmníochas m
• Polish: nominalizm m
• Portuguese: nominalismo (pt) m
• Russian: номинализм (ru) (nominalizm)
• Swedish: nominalism c
• Turkish: adcılık (tr)

See also

• problem of universals
• universalism

Anagrams

• misnominal

Romanian

Etymology

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

Noun

nominalism n (uncountable)

1. nominalism

Declension

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

Swedish

Noun

nominalism c

1. nominalism

Declension

Declension of nominalism

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	nominalism	nominalisms
	definite	nominalismen	nominalismens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Coordinate terms

• konceptualism
• realism

Related terms

• nominalist
• nominalistisk

References

• “nominalism”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “nominalism”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “nominalism”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)