conceptualism
conceptualism noun: the art movement towards conceptual art.
Noun
conceptualism (countable and uncountable, plural conceptualisms)
- The art movement towards conceptual art.
- 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.
- 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[…]1853, Victor Cousin, Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good
Forms of conceptualism
| plural | conceptualisms |
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Origin of conceptualism
From conceptual + -ism.
Words formed from conceptualism
Questions about conceptualism
- What does conceptualism mean?
- Conceptualism means the art movement towards conceptual art.
- What part of speech is conceptualism?
- Conceptualism is a noun.
- What is the plural of conceptualism?
- The plural of conceptualism is conceptualisms.
Words near conceptualism in the dictionary
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