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contextualisms

contextualisms is the plural of contextualism.

Meaning of contextualism

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

Questions about contextualisms

What is contextualisms the plural of?
Contextualisms is the plural of contextualism.

Words near contextualisms in the dictionary

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

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