RELATIVISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relativism mean? 

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

1. (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that all criteria of judgment are relative to the individuals and situations involved

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELATIVISM (noun)

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Meaning:

(philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that all criteria of judgment are relative to the individuals and situations involved

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("relativism" 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:

relativistic (of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of relativism)