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单词 nothing-but-ism
释义

nothing-but-ismn.

Brit. /ˌnʌθɪŋˈbʌtɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌnəθɪŋˈbətˌɪz(ə)m/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nothing pron. and n., but conj., -ism suffix.
Etymology: < nothing pron. and n. + but conj. + -ism suffix. Compare slightly later nothing-but adj. and n.
Psychology. rare.
An oversimplistic approach to the explanation of a phenomenon, which excludes complicating factors; reductionism. Cf. nothing-buttery n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > making easy > freeing from complexity > to excess
simplism1840
oversimplification1878
nothing-but-ism1935
oversimplifying1939
1935 Mind 44 91 Jung's formulation..is the antithesis of nothing-but’-ism.
1980 J. H. Crook Evol. Human Consciousness i. 3 The simplicism, the ‘nothing butism’ as Julian Huxley would have said, of reducing all functional explanations of complex behaviour to calculations concerning the relative fitness of gene-bearers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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