historicism
historicism noun: a theory that events are influenced by historical conditions, rather than by people.
Noun
historicism (countable and uncountable, plural historicisms)
- A theory that events are influenced by historical conditions, rather than by people.
- The use of historical styles in contemporary art.
- A method of interpretation in Christian eschatology which attempts to associate Biblical prophecies with actual historical events and symbolic beings with historical persons or societies.
Forms of historicism
| plural | historicisms |
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Origin of historicism
Calque of German Historismus, historic + -ism.
Words formed from historicism
- antihistoricism
- neo-historicism
- new historicism
- pseudohistoricism
Questions about historicism
- What does historicism mean?
- Historicism means a theory that events are influenced by historical conditions, rather than by people.
- What part of speech is historicism?
- Historicism is a noun.
- What is the plural of historicism?
- The plural of historicism is historicisms.
Words near historicism in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: historicism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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