situationism
situationism noun: a school of thought which holds that personality is more influenced by external factors than by internal traits or motivations.
Noun
situationism (countable and uncountable, plural situationisms)
- A school of thought which holds that personality is more influenced by external factors than by internal traits or motivations.
- A mid-20th-century offshoot of Marxism, influenced by avant-garde art movements.
- The situationists meant to define a stance, not an ideology, because they saw all ideologies as alienations, transformations of subjectivity into objectivity, desire into a power that rendered the individual powerless: “There is no such thing as situationism,” they said for years.1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009
Forms of situationism
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Origin of situationism
From situation + -ism.
Questions about situationism
- What does situationism mean?
- Situationism means a school of thought which holds that personality is more influenced by external factors than by internal traits or motivations.
- What part of speech is situationism?
- Situationism is a noun.
- What is the plural of situationism?
- The plural of situationism is situationisms.
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