English Explanatory Dictionary

uniformism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A policy of, or belief in, uniformity or sameness.
  2. The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the Earth; in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.

Word forms

uniformism

Etymology

From uniform + -ism.

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