hominism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An entirely human world-view, with no elements that do not reflect human senses and experience, especially with the belief that this is all human beings are capable of.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
An aggressive and utilitarian stance toward the world, characterized by anthropocentrism and cold objectivity.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Secular humanism; A form of humanism with no concept of or reference to God, often associated with feminism.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "But excessive hominism has not only the defect of seeing man as the central point of the Universe, upon which everything turns: from the human standpoint it sets too high a value on man himself, and regards him solely from its subjective aspect."
- "For this reason hominism stands so bluntly against the old and new dogmatic materialism and mechanism."
- "Locke, the first to criticize the senses, proclaimed the hominism of secondary characteristics like colors and musical tones; Kant, who believed he was criticizing pure reason, asserted boldly and grandly the hominism of some primary characteristics, of space, of time, of causality;"
- "Furthermore, as we have seen during the course of the present book, thoroughgoing anthropomonism or hominism reflexively recoils upon itself and demythologizes itself."
- "In Fukuzawa of Japan, there's a saying like this, "If the education of the child is before ten years old, it's animalism and if after ten years old, it's hominism."
- "Humanism needs the Christian faith lest it reduce man to a thing and become what MacGregor calls hominism."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Hominismus