historism
An influential 19th-century school of thought in historiography that rejected…An influential 19th-century school of thought in historiography that rejected universalist and anachronistic explanations of historical developments and instead emphasized the idiosyncrasies and organic developments of each culture and time period, to be understood through critical interpretation of primary sources in the context of the unique conditions that produced them.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)An influential 19th-century school of thought in historiography that rejected universalist and anachronistic explanations of historical developments and instead emphasized the idiosyncrasies and organic developments of each culture and time period, to be understood through critical interpretation of primary sources in the context of the unique conditions that produced them.
Historismus
Translations
1 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From German Historismus.From German Historismus.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Forms
plural: historisms| Singular | historism |
|---|---|
| Plural | historisms |
regular
Word family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable