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contextualism

contextualism noun: any of a group of doctrines that stress the importance of context.

Noun

contextualism (countable and uncountable, plural contextualisms)

  1. Any of a group of doctrines that stress the importance of context
    • If contextualism is true, then change ramifies through all the contextual connections.2008 March 21, Brendan Larvor, “What can the Philosophy of Mathematics Learn from the History of Mathematics?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 3, →DOI
  2. A use of language that is dependent on context.
    • In this communicational mode, language units can be differentiated as usualisms and contextualisms (Fig. 4-6).2020, Alexander Barkovich, Informational Linguistics: The New Communicational Reality, page 125

Forms of contextualism

pluralcontextualisms

Origin of contextualism

From contextual + -ism.

Questions about contextualism

What does contextualism mean?
Contextualism means any of a group of doctrines that stress the importance of context.
What part of speech is contextualism?
Contextualism is a noun.
What is the plural of contextualism?
The plural of contextualism is contextualisms.

Words near contextualism in the dictionary

  1. contextualised
  2. contextualiser
  3. contextualisers
  4. contextualises
  5. contextualising
  6. contextualism
  7. contextualisms
  8. contextualist
  9. contextualistic
  10. contextualistically
  11. contextualists

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