essentialism
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- noun
- /ɪˈsɛnʃəlɪzəm/
- But the argument of her work, like Ekman's, nevertheless seems to draw sustenance from the essentialism she opposes here.
- strategic essentialism
- cultural essentialism
- biological essentialism
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Watch on YouTubePeople often take the existentialists, as you know, going against a Hegel of essentialism.
- People often take the existentialists, as you know, going against a Hegel of essentialism.
- He vanquished what's called essentialism, the idea that there's a single set of features that define any species.
- I'm not just the father of essentialism by that point, I'm father of four children with a lot of responsibilities.
- There's never been a more important time in history for people to understand the tenets of essentialism than right now because there's so much noise.
Examples
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To this day, Africa remains an abstraction in the West, locked behind imperialist essentialism and generalized, racist images.
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Other academics, judges, and journalists have challenged these views as gender essentialism.
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I said, "I also challenge the essentialism of your comments about violence."
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But there are people who think that this kind of essentialism is unacceptable.
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I suppose the question might be raised: is there any essentialism to male or female sexuality?
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But there's also this strong strain of gender essentialism related to family.
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Nor are we the first to confront the essentialism that such a dichotomy can produce.
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There's never been a more important time in history for people to understand the tenets of essentialism than right now because there's so much noise.
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Robert Warrior, an Osage intellectual, explains the problem with essentialism: "Appeals to essentialized worldviews.
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Many scholars argue that gender essentialism oversimplifies the complexities of identity within society.
Antonyms
- Specialized
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9.2
The idea that truth and moral rules depend on culture, society, or time
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Essentialism comes from essential, from essence meaning 'the basic nature' or 'what something is'. So essentialism is the belief that people or things have a fixed 'essence' that does not change.