non-naturalismn.
/nɒnˈnatʃ(ə)rəlɪz(ə)m/, /nɒnˈnatʃ(ə)rl̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /nɑ(n)ˈnætʃ(ə)rəˌlɪz(ə)m/ 1. A non-natural feature or characteristic; (also) non-natural style.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > laboured or pedantic quality
periergia1550
pedantism1592
stiffness1638
pedantry1841
non-naturalism1895
1895 Academy 29 June 541/3 Non-naturalisms and over-embroideries in style.
1931 A. Pope Introd. Lang. Drawing & Painting II. v. 120 Few contemporary painters, in spite of non-naturalism, are nearer the use of their imagination than the frankly imitative artists of the nineteenth century.
1948 M. Schorer et al. Criticism 389 During periods of non-naturalism..the artist abandons the three-dimensional world and returns to the plane.
2000 J. Caughie Television Drama iv. 108 I can now put more succinctly the case for non-naturalism in television drama.
2. Philosophy. A theory of ethics which opposes naturalism; intuitionism in ethics.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > [noun] > naturalism > non-naturalism and its adherents
non-naturalism1939
non-naturalist1939
1939 Mind 48 464 The practitioners of a certain kind of ethical theory.., which is variously called objectivism, non-naturalism, or intuitionism, have frequently charged their opponents with committing the naturalistic fallacy.
1955 Jrnl. Philos. 52 114 Non-naturalism maintains that the explanation and analysis of language is possible without committing the naturalistic fallacy.
1994 Ethics 104 602 Scheffler apparently associates Kantian nonnaturalism with the Kantian metaphysical commitment to noumenal determination of the will.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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