structuralisticadj.
/ˌstrʌktʃ(ə)rəˈlɪstɪk/, /ˌstrʌktʃ(ə)rl̩ˈɪstɪk/, U.S. /ˌstrək(t)ʃ(ə)rəˈlɪstɪk/ = structuralist adj. (now chiefly in sense 1).
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > [adjective] > structural
structural1861
structuralistic1911
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [adjective] > relating to other branches and their adherents
structuralized1842
structurated1880
structuralistic1911
noegenetic1923
the mind > language > linguistics > other schools of linguistics > [adjective] > structuralism
structurated1880
structuralist1895
structuralistic1911
Saussurean1937
Bloomfieldian1947
structural linguistic1947
structural1948
post-Bloomfieldian1961
1911 Philos. Rev. 20 551 The treatment of attention is marked by an effort to deal with the subject exclusively under his structuralistic conceptions of sensation, affection, and image.
1936 Year's Work in Mod. Lang. Stud. 7 230 Under the influence of the Genevan school..the study of present-day language (the ‘synchronistic’ point of view) and the closely connected study of language as a system of signs (the ‘structuralistic’ point of view) have been stressed most markedly.
1957 H. Whitehall in N. Frye Sound & Poetry 134 Both criticism and linguistics, in their modern phases, are structuralistic in attitude.
1972 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 87 37 Mental imagery and image formation have recently become a topic of concern again, after avoidance of such structuralistic phenomena for 50 years or more.
1985 E. Gellner Relativism & Social Sci. vi. 164 The idea that beating the binary conceptual bounds is the essence of communication is a structuralistic myth.
2000 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 87 742/2 He employs a structuralistic paradigm for interpreting the confessional memoirs and autobiographies of mid-twentieth-century southern whites.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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