DARWINISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Darwinism mean? 

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

1. a theory of organic evolution claiming that new species arise and are perpetuated by natural selection

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DARWINISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A theory of organic evolution claiming that new species arise and are perpetuated by natural selection

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

evolutionism; theory of evolution; theory of organic evolution ((biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Darwinism"):

neo-Darwinism (a modern Darwinian theory that explains new species in terms of genetic mutations)

 Context examples 

You have ventured to use the word 'speculation' with regard to my statement upon the subject of Darwinism, and I would call your attention to the fact that such a word in such a connection is offensive to a degree.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)