English Explanatory Dictionary

historicism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A theory that events are influenced by historical conditions, rather than by people.
  2. The use of historical styles in contemporary art.
  3. A method of interpretation in Christian eschatology which attempts to associate Biblical prophecies with actual historical events and symbolic beings with historical persons or societies.

Word forms

historicism historicisms

Etymology

Calque of German Historismus, historic + -ism.

Related words

historicist futurism historism preterism

Derived words

antihistoricism neo-historicism new historicism pseudohistoricism
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