accidentalismn.

Brit.

/ˌaksᵻˈdɛntlɪz(ə)m/, U.S.

/ˌæksəˈdɛn(t)lɪzəm/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: accidental adj., -ism suffix.

Etymology: < accidental adj. + -ism suffix. Compare accidentalist n. In sense 2 probably after French accidentalisme (1878 or earlier).

1. The quality of being accidental (in various senses); accidental manner or nature; (also) an instance of this.

ΚΠ

1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 284 The constant habit of nature to..make the symmetry and beauty of her laws the more felt by the grace and accidentalism with which they are carried out.

1870 Hours at Home Sept. 482/1 ‘The Blessed Damozel’..will always be the poem by which Rossetti is best known. The felicity of its construction—a sort of inspired accidentalism—is beyond anything, almost, in the language.

1899 Academy 21 Oct. 459/1 She was very pure and colourless, apart from an accidentalism of tinted rays.

1917 Munsey's Mag. May 688/1 Have you ever given thought to the accidentalism of many great discoveries?

2005 M. Simpson Trafficking Subj. Introd. xxxi Such attempts at regulation only underscore mobility's crises in the period—its contingency, its unpredictability, its accidentalism.

†2. Medicine. A theory of medicine regarding disease as an accidental modification of health. Cf. accidentalist n. 2. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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1878 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Accidentalism, a system of medicine in which disease is regarded as an external and accidental modification of health without any primary or original root in the body, which can be guarded against by foreseeing and destroying external causes and their occasions.

3. A theory or belief which proposes that events occur as a result of chance or contingency, and are not preordained or attributable to a single definite cause. Cf. accidentalist n. 1.

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1880 Methodist Q. Rev. Jan. 166 Seen under the desperation of Malthus and the accidentalism of Darwin, deprived of all the lights and colorings of a higher faith, the universe is a dismal presentation.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 114/2 Opponents of this accidentalism maintain that what seems to be the result of chance is in reality due to a cause or causes which..we are unable to detect.

1951 Sci. & Society 15 217 In classical genetics the purest brand of Stoic and Augustinian fatalism is juxtaposed to the crudest variety of accidentalism.

2004 L. Kohn in V. Shen & W. Oxtoby Wisdom in China & West xiv. 260 This viewpoint stands in contrast to materialistic accidentalism, according to which everything happens at random and is due entirely to chance.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	accidentalism
释义	accidentalismn. Brit. /ˌaksᵻˈdɛntlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌæksəˈdɛn(t)lɪzəm/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: accidental adj., -ism suffix. Etymology: < accidental adj. + -ism suffix. Compare accidentalist n. In sense 2 probably after French accidentalisme (1878 or earlier). 1. The quality of being accidental (in various senses); accidental manner or nature; (also) an instance of this. ΚΠ 1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 284 The constant habit of nature to..make the symmetry and beauty of her laws the more felt by the grace and accidentalism with which they are carried out. 1870 Hours at Home Sept. 482/1 ‘The Blessed Damozel’..will always be the poem by which Rossetti is best known. The felicity of its construction—a sort of inspired accidentalism—is beyond anything, almost, in the language. 1899 Academy 21 Oct. 459/1 She was very pure and colourless, apart from an accidentalism of tinted rays. 1917 Munsey's Mag. May 688/1 Have you ever given thought to the accidentalism of many great discoveries? 2005 M. Simpson Trafficking Subj. Introd. xxxi Such attempts at regulation only underscore mobility's crises in the period—its contingency, its unpredictability, its accidentalism. †2. Medicine. A theory of medicine regarding disease as an accidental modification of health. Cf. accidentalist n. 2. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1878 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Accidentalism, a system of medicine in which disease is regarded as an external and accidental modification of health without any primary or original root in the body, which can be guarded against by foreseeing and destroying external causes and their occasions. 3. A theory or belief which proposes that events occur as a result of chance or contingency, and are not preordained or attributable to a single definite cause. Cf. accidentalist n. 1. ΚΠ 1880 Methodist Q. Rev. Jan. 166 Seen under the desperation of Malthus and the accidentalism of Darwin, deprived of all the lights and colorings of a higher faith, the universe is a dismal presentation. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 114/2 Opponents of this accidentalism maintain that what seems to be the result of chance is in reality due to a cause or causes which..we are unable to detect. 1951 Sci. & Society 15 217 In classical genetics the purest brand of Stoic and Augustinian fatalism is juxtaposed to the crudest variety of accidentalism. 2004 L. Kohn in V. Shen & W. Oxtoby Wisdom in China & West xiv. 260 This viewpoint stands in contrast to materialistic accidentalism, according to which everything happens at random and is due entirely to chance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1843
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