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technicism|ˈtɛknɪsɪz(ə)m|
[f. as prec. + -ism: cf. mod.L. technicismus, Kant 1790.]
1. A technical term or expression, a technicality.
1799A. Seward Lett. (1821) V. 263 Bewildered in a maze of scholastic technicisms.
2. Technical quality or character; a condition in which practical results or methods are stressed.
1932tr. Ortega y Gasset's Revolt of Masses vi. 61 Three principals have made possible this new world: liberal democracy, scientific experiment, and industrialism. The two latter may be summed-up in one word: technicism. 1951Archit. Rev. CX. 203/2 There is also research into aesthetic functions, and it is due only to this latter, if, instead of arriving at a dry technicism or mere utilitarianism, the modern movement has led to a true new style in architecture. 1977Times Educ. Suppl. 21 Oct. 32/3 Even in the Bullock report..one yet senses, ultimately, a dreary technicism of mind... The report is written in the language of death. |