simplismn.

Brit.

/ˈsɪmplɪz(ə)m/, U.S.

/ˈsɪmˌplɪz(ə)m/

Forms: 1800s– simplism, 1900s– simplisme (in sense 1 Brit.

/samˈpliːz(ə)m/, U.S.

/ˌsæmˈpliz(ə)m/).

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

Etymology: < simple adj. + -ism suffix. Compare earlier simplicity n.In sense 1 after French simplisme (1822 in the passage reviewed in quot. 1840). In form simplisme directly after French simplisme.

1. Lack of complexity or nuance; the tendency to oversimplify; oversimplification. Also: an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > absence of complexity

simplenessa1398

simplesse?c1400

plainness1669

incomplexity1778

simplism1840

elementariness1862

the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > making easy > freeing from complexity > to excess

simplism1840

oversimplification1878

nothing-but-ism1935

oversimplifying1939

the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [noun] > action of simplifying > to excess

simplism1840

oversimplification1878

1840 A. Brisbane Social Destiny of Man vi. 59 The pivotal character of the Barbarian mechanism, observes Fourier,..is Simplism of Action; the action of the civilized system being always compound.

1884 Radical Rev. 30 Aug. 7/2 Its claim for equal rights is a simplism, an arbitrary simplism, made in disregard of the natural factors.

1942 College Eng. 4 17 It is no doubt this radical simplism of treatment that accounts for the appeal of semantics.

1974 New Society 13 June 623/1 A fair number of marxist academics have been alarmed at this anti-fascist simplisme coming home to roost.

1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Feb. 150/2 Gladstone's complaint in 1874 that the opposition fomented by the Daily News had been ‘one main cause’ of the weakness of his late government was, of course, a simplism.

2014 P. Ferrara Global Relig. & Internat. Relations 16 Under the apparent simplism of a mostly ethical formulation lay a considerable set of discontinuities.

2. Affected or overdone simplicity of literary style. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [noun] > overdone or affected plainness

simplism1890

1890 C. J. Woodbury Talks with Emerson 45 Other writers have to affect what to him [sc. Wordsworth]..is natural. So they have what Arnold calls simplism, he, simplicity.

1929 Bookman May 307/1 He is a story-teller who puts on no airs of rhetoric nor does he lapse into simplism.

1969 N.Y. Times 3 Aug. (Book Review section) 30/3 In a crescendo of simplism, this 27-year-old author brings his book to a close.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	simplism
释义	simplismn. Brit. /ˈsɪmplɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈsɪmˌplɪz(ə)m/ Forms: 1800s– simplism, 1900s– simplisme (in sense 1 Brit. /samˈpliːz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌsæmˈpliz(ə)m/). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: simple adj., -ism suffix. Etymology: < simple adj. + -ism suffix. Compare earlier simplicity n.In sense 1 after French simplisme (1822 in the passage reviewed in quot. 1840). In form simplisme directly after French simplisme. 1. Lack of complexity or nuance; the tendency to oversimplify; oversimplification. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > absence of complexity simplenessa1398 simplesse?c1400 plainness1669 incomplexity1778 simplism1840 elementariness1862 the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > making easy > freeing from complexity > to excess simplism1840 oversimplification1878 nothing-but-ism1935 oversimplifying1939 the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [noun] > action of simplifying > to excess simplism1840 oversimplification1878 1840 A. Brisbane Social Destiny of Man vi. 59 The pivotal character of the Barbarian mechanism, observes Fourier,..is Simplism of Action; the action of the civilized system being always compound. 1884 Radical Rev. 30 Aug. 7/2 Its claim for equal rights is a simplism, an arbitrary simplism, made in disregard of the natural factors. 1942 College Eng. 4 17 It is no doubt this radical simplism of treatment that accounts for the appeal of semantics. 1974 New Society 13 June 623/1 A fair number of marxist academics have been alarmed at this anti-fascist simplisme coming home to roost. 1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Feb. 150/2 Gladstone's complaint in 1874 that the opposition fomented by the Daily News had been ‘one main cause’ of the weakness of his late government was, of course, a simplism. 2014 P. Ferrara Global Relig. & Internat. Relations 16 Under the apparent simplism of a mostly ethical formulation lay a considerable set of discontinuities. 2. Affected or overdone simplicity of literary style. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [noun] > overdone or affected plainness simplism1890 1890 C. J. Woodbury Talks with Emerson 45 Other writers have to affect what to him [sc. Wordsworth]..is natural. So they have what Arnold calls simplism, he, simplicity. 1929 Bookman May 307/1 He is a story-teller who puts on no airs of rhetoric nor does he lapse into simplism. 1969 N.Y. Times 3 Aug. (Book Review section) 30/3 In a crescendo of simplism, this 27-year-old author brings his book to a close. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1840
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