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hierarchicalism

hierarchicalism noun: the process or policy of organising as a hierarchy.

Noun

hierarchicalism (uncountable)

  1. The process or policy of organising as a hierarchy.
    • As we have explored the organizational development of the church, it has become evident that the organization that God wanted for His church was the antithesis of hierarchicalism.2000, Colin D. Standish, Organizational Structure and Apostasy, page 18
    • “Beneath that quick-smiling or watchful Catholicism lurks another far more elaborate hierarchicalism which in turn subdivides all supposed ‘Mexicans’ into myriads of local spiritualities whose half-secret survival through all the long torments of the Spanish conquest promises their own continuance...2009 August 2, Lawrence Downes, “Desert Odyssey”, in New York Times

Origin of hierarchicalism

From hierarchical + -ism.

Questions about hierarchicalism

What does hierarchicalism mean?
Hierarchicalism means the process or policy of organising as a hierarchy.
What part of speech is hierarchicalism?
Hierarchicalism is a noun.

Words near hierarchicalism in the dictionary

  1. hierarchial
  2. hierarchic
  3. hierarchical
  4. hierarchical database
  5. hierarchical databases
  6. hierarchicalism
  7. hierarchicality
  8. hierarchically
  9. hierarchies
  10. hierarchies of effects
  11. hierarchisation

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