historicism
English
noun
Definitions
- A theory that events are influenced by historical conditions, rather than by people.
- (arts) The use of historical styles in contemporary art.
- (theology) A method of interpretation in Christian eschatology which attempts to associate Biblical prophecies with actual historical events and symbolic beings with historical persons or societies.
Etymology
Suffix from English historic.
Origin
English
historic
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ahistoric English
- antihistoricism English
- ethnohistoric English
- historic English
- historicaster English
- historicist English
- historicistic English
- historicity English
- historicization English
- historicize English
- historicness English
- macrohistoric English
- microhistoric English
- neo-historicism English
- polyhistoric English
- prehistoric English
- protohistoric English
- sociohistoric English
- unhistoric English
- historicus Latin