homonism

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A form of hominism — An entirely human world-view, with no elements that do not reflect human senses and experience, especially with the belief that this is all human beings are capable of.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounhomonism (countable and uncountable, plural homonisms)

plural homonisms

  1. countablemisconstructionuncountableMisconstruction of hominism.

    But that type of humanism (which Windelband called homonism) is not acceptable to all who bear the name, for example, Professor Schiller of Oxford.

    1879, Felix Adler, Atheism: a Lecture, 2 edition, Co-operative Printers' Association, page 32
    1 more example

    Chart 1 shows the change in the periodicals' attitude toward Homonism from a very negative appraisal in the mid-nineteenth century to a moderately favorable viewpoint in the mid-twentieth century.

    1961, Richard Olsen Cowan, Mormonism in National Periodicals, Stanford University, page 203
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