descendentalism

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noun

A doctrine that emphasizes empiricism and positivism; a philosophical focus on material and worldly matters.

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Meanings

noundescendentalism (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesA doctrine that emphasizes empiricism and positivism; a philosophical focus on material and worldly matters.

    Epistemological descendentalism withdraws from the celestial, and infernal, regions to matter of fact; it presumes that, in a world of universal evil, no other realm can or need be sought but that in which man comes to know the evil which is his life.

    1974, Robert Currie, Genius: an ideology in literature

Origin

From descendental + -ism.

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descendentalism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/descendentalism

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Chicago

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