English Explanatory Dictionary

elementalism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Synonym of elementarism (“the view that things are constructed from simpler elements”).
  2. The theory that the heathen gods originated in the personification of elemental powers

Word forms

elementalism

Etymology

From elemental + -ism.

Synonyms

elementarism

Related words

elementalist elementalistic
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