atomistic
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9.1
- adjective
- /ˌætəˈmɪstɪk/
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atomista
- The atomistic perspective views societies as being made up of many individual parts rather than as a cohesive whole.
- atomistic individualism
- atomistic market
- atomistic view
There's just a kind of individual or atomistic views that people hold about different things.
- There's just a kind of individual or atomistic views that people hold about different things.
Examples
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Instead of viewing time as a random chaos of atomistic experience, history assumes that the past has structure, meaning, and consequence.
Academic text (1992) -
We can view the health care arena as an atomistic economic market—the self-interest model.
Academic text (1993) -
There's just a kind of individual or atomistic views that people hold about different things.
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The pursuit of individual happiness cannot be an atomistic process; it will naturally and always occur in communities.
Academic text (1991) -
A deep-seated belief in the existence of a primordial atomistic structure of matter has not always been present in human thinking.
Academic text (2004) -
Next year, when we reevaluate this atomistic model, collaborative energies may have again begun to flow.
Academic text (1993) -
Neoclassical assumptions include the possession of perfect information, zero transaction costs, atomistic markets, perfect factor mobility, and utility maximization by actors.
Academic text (1990) -
Feminist ethics, for example, has brought fresh criticisms of the atomistic concept of the individual that underlies much of the ethic of individual autonomy.
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For this reason, Jefferson would deliberately criticize the anti-social, atomistic conceptions of Hobbes as a "humiliation to human nature."
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Cartesian duality reified these distinctions into atomistic entities, thus emphasizing the disjunction between mind (the interior) and body/matter (the exterior).
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
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7.4
Made of very small bits that float in air or water
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7.0
Organized so different parts do not share information
Made of separate, disconnected parts that do not work together
A system with separate parts that work on their own
Organized into separate parts with little connection
Having small separate parts that are not complete
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A theory that says all matter is made of very small parts called atoms
How Fragmented
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word atomistic comes from atom, from the Greek atomos, which means 'uncut' or 'not cut' because a- means 'not' and tomos means 'cut'. So an atomistic view sees things as separate little parts, like many tiny pieces instead of one whole.