Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

substantivalism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sub-stan-ti-val-ism
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The doctrine that space and time have an existence independent of physical things.

Example Sentences

"Several philosophers of science have argued that the general theory of relativity actually supports spacetime substantivalism (if not separate spatial and temporal substantivalisms) since it allows solutions consisting of nothing but a differentiable manifold with metric tensor field […]"
"In it, Clarke defends on behalf of Newton a form of substantivalism according to which (absolute) space exists independently of matter and is as real as matter."

Etymology

From substantival + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: substantival

Inflected Forms

substantivalisms (plural)

Questions

What does substantivalism mean?: The doctrine that space and time have an existence independent of physical things.
Where does substantivalism come from?: From substantival + -ism.

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