Meanings
nounconceptualism (countable and uncountable, plural conceptualisms)
plural conceptualisms
- countableuncountableThe art movement towards conceptual art.
- countableuncountablehuman sciencesA theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects; the doctrine that universals have an existence in the mind apart from any concrete embodiment.
We have thus returned, then, to that conceptualism of the middle age, which, concentrating truth within the human intelligence, makes the nature of things a phantom of intelligence projecting itself everywhere out of itself[…]
1853, Victor Cousin, Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
- Proto-Italic*kom
- Proto-Italic*kom-
- Latincon-
- Proto-Indo-European*kap-
- Proto-Indo-European*kapyéti
- Proto-Italic*kapjō
- Latincapiō
- Ancient Greekσῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)
- Latinconcipiō
- Latinconceptus
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Medieval Latinconceptuālis
- Englishconceptual
- Englishconceptualism
From conceptual + -ism.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan conceptualisme
- conceptualismetheory
Chinese Mandarin 概念論 /概念论
- 概念論 /概念论 (gàiniànlùn)theory
Finnish konseptualismi, konseptualismi
- konseptualismiart movement
- konseptualismitheory
- käsitenominalismitheory
French conceptualisme
- conceptualismetheory
Greek εννοιοκρατία
- εννοιοκρατία (ennoiokratía)theory
Portuguese concetualismo, conceptualismo
- concetualismotheory
- conceptualismotheory
Spanish conceptualismo
- conceptualismotheory
Cite this entry
APA
conceptualism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conceptualism
MLA
“conceptualism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conceptualism. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “conceptualism,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conceptualism.
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