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multiplism

multiplism noun: the philosophical strategy that asserts the validity of multiple differing interpretations.

Noun

multiplism (uncountable)

  1. The philosophical strategy that asserts the validity of multiple differing interpretations.
    • Cook's multiplism thus privileges convergent truths through triangulation even as it provides spaces for divergence and difference, regarding such occurrences as troublesome "empirical puzzles."2007, Jennifer C. Greene, Mixed Methods in Social Inquiry, →ISBN, page 23
    • Part I offers revealing examples of apparently incompatible interpretations and, in the spirit of multiplism, offers several strategies for rendering them admissible.2010, Michael Krausz, Is There a Single Right Interpretation?, →ISBN, page 5
  2. The style created and promoted by Victor Victori, which depicts a subject in different positions and expressions in order to show change over time.
    • He's now mostly doing originals and his own style of art called multiplism. Multiplism is when Victori does multiple, connected faces in one piece to show a person or character's various emotions.2015 February 18, Marlon Wallace, “DVD Review - Victori: The Truth Just Can't Be One Thing”, in WBOC TV 16
    • Guided by his business school-educated son, he wants to take on the New York Art scene with his aesthetic movement “multiplism,” a cubist spin-off featuring works such as the Mona Lisa with a dozen different expressions.2015 February 28, “Lives and times”, in Boston Globe

Antonyms of multiplism

Origin of multiplism

From multiple + -ism.

Questions about multiplism

What does multiplism mean?
Multiplism means the philosophical strategy that asserts the validity of multiple differing interpretations.
What part of speech is multiplism?
Multiplism is a noun.

Words near multiplism in the dictionary

  1. multiplier onions
  2. multipliers
  3. multiplies
  4. multipliest
  5. multiplieth
  6. multiplism
  7. multiplist
  8. multiplistic
  9. multiplists
  10. multiploid
  11. multiploidization

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