monocausotaxophilia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The tendency to explain everything as based on a single cause.

Word forms

monocausotaxophilia

Etymology

Coined by Ernst Pöppel, as a joke, but picked up and popularized by others.

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