conceptualism

English

Etymology

conceptual +‎ -ism

Noun

conceptualism (countable and uncountable, plural conceptualisms)

1. The art movement towards conceptual art.
2. (philosophy) A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects; the doctrine that universals have an existence in the mind apart from any concrete embodiment.
   • 1853, Victor Cousin, Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good:

     We have thus returned, then, to that conceptualism of the middle age, which, concentrating truth within the human intelligence, makes the nature of things a phantom of intelligence projecting itself everywhere out of itself […]

Derived terms

• anticonceptualism
• neoconceptualism
• nonconceptualism
• postconceptualism

 

Translations

theory

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 概念論／概念论 (zh) (gàiniànlùn)

• Finnish: konseptualismi, käsitenominalismi
• Greek: εννοιοκρατία (el) f (ennoiokratía)
• Portuguese: concetualismo m, conceptualismo m

Anagrams

• uncomplicates

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French conceptualisme. By surface analysis, conceptual +‎ -ism.

Noun

conceptualism n (uncountable)

1. conceptualism

Declension

declension of conceptualism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) conceptualism	conceptualismul
genitive/dative	(unui) conceptualism	conceptualismului
vocative	conceptualismule