HISTORICISM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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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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