relativism

English

Etymology

From relative +‎ -ism.

Noun

relativism (countable and uncountable, plural relativisms)

1. (uncountable, philosophy) The theory, especially in ethics or aesthetics, that conceptions of truth and moral values are not absolute but are relative to the persons or groups holding them.
2. (countable, philosophy) A specific such theory, advocated by a particular philosopher or school of thought.
   • 2008, Paul Boghossian, “Replies to Wright, MacFarlane and Sosa,” Philosophical Studies, vol. 141, no. 3, p. 413:

     Following Gilbert Harman’s lead, my own formulation of relativism about the normative domain was based on the classic examples of thoroughgoing relativisms drawn from physics.

Translations

theory that truth and moral values are relative

• Afrikaans: relativisme m
• Arabic: نِسْبَوِيَّة f (nisbawiyya)
• Armenian: ռելյատիվիզմ (hy) (ṙelyativizm)
• Catalan: relativisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 相對主義／相对主义 (zh) (xiāngduì zhǔyì), 相对主义 (zh) (xiāngduìzhǔyì)

• Czech: relativismus m
• Finnish: relativismi (fi)
• French: relativisme (fr) m
• Galician: relativismo m
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• German: Relativismus m
• Italian: relativismo (it) m
• Japanese: 相対主義 (そうたいしゅぎ, sōtaishugi)
• Malay: relativisme, nisbiah
• Polish: relatywizm m
• Portuguese: relativismo (pt) m
• Romanian: relativism (ro)
• Russian: релятиви́зм (ru) m (reljativízm)
• Serbo-Croatian: relativizam (sh) m, релативизам m
• Spanish: relativismo (es) m

See also

• alternativism
• pragmatism