NOMINALISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nominalism mean? 

• NOMINALISM (noun)
  The noun NOMINALISM has 1 sense:

1. (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name

  Familiarity information: NOMINALISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOMINALISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("nominalism" is a kind of...):

philosophical doctrine; philosophical theory (a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy)

Domain category:

philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)

Derivation:

nominalistic (of or relating to nominalism)