simplisms

Noun

simplism (countable and uncountable, plural simplisms)

1. The trait of oversimplifying things by ignoring complexity and complications.
   • Their need for simplicity is met by politicians offering “simplism”: the ideology of simple answers for complex problems.2023 October 21, Simon Kuper, “The end of reading and the rise of simplism”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17
2. An instance of a brief or reductive depiction that neglects the full nuance and complexity of a concept or issue, and that omits or overlooks important details.
   • The error into which Fourier's disciples are occasionally falling, is one which Fourier condemns in the most explicit and absolute terms; it is the error which Fourier designates by the term "simplism". Because a social reform is needful, therefore they argue, that is the only thing needful...1848 Charles Julius Hempel The True Organization of the New Church