Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

neoevolutionism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: neo-evo-lu-tion-ism
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A school of anthropology, developed in the mid-20th century, concerned with long-term, evolutionary social change and with the regular patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, widely separated cultures.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The so-called neoevolutionism or cultural materialism of Childe, however, had been preserved (in the works of R. McC. Adams, Braidwood, and others), as had the environmental school of Crawford, Fox, and Clark. […] Influences from cultural anthropology—neoevolutionism and functionalism—were pulling in the same direction."

Etymology

From neo- + evolutionism.

Usage

Uncountable

Frequently Paired Words

neoevolution neoevolutionary neoevolutionist

Synonyms

neo-evolutionism

Questions

What does neoevolutionism mean?: A school of anthropology, developed in the mid-20th century, concerned with long-term, evolutionary social change and with the regular patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, widely separated cultures.
Where does neoevolutionism come from?: From neo- + evolutionism.

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