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HISTORICISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does historicism mean?
• HISTORICISM (noun)
The noun HISTORICISM has 1 sense:
1. a theory that social and cultural events are determined by history
Familiarity information: HISTORICISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A theory that social and cultural events are determined by history
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("historicism" is a kind of...):
hypothesis; possibility; theory (a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena)
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