historicism
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English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Calque of German Historismus , historic + -ism .
Noun
[edit ]historicism (countable and uncountable , plural historicisms )
- A theory that events are influenced by historical conditions, rather than by people.
- (art ) 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.
Derived terms
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[edit ]Translations
[edit ]theory that relates events to historical context
- Arabic: التاريخية (ar)
- Assamese: ইতিহাসবাদ (as) (itihaxobad)
- Basque: historizismo (eu)
- Belarusian:
- Taraškievica: гістарыцызм (be) (histarycyzm)
- Bulgarian: историцизъм (bg) (istoricizăm)
- Catalan: historicisme m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 歷史主義 / 历史主义 (yue)
- Mandarin: 歷史主義 / 历史主义 (zh) (lìshǐ zhǔyì)
- Min Nan: le̍k-sú-chú-gī (zh-min-nan)
- Danish: historicisme (da)
- Dutch: historicisme (nl)
- Esperanto: historiismo (eo)
- Estonian: historitsism (et)
- Finnish: historismi (fi)
- French: historicisme (fr)
- Galician: historicismo (gl)
- German: Historizismus (de)
- Hebrew: היסטוריציזם (he)
- Hungarian: historicizmus
- Indonesian: historisisme (id)
- Italian: storicismo (it)
- Japanese: 歴史主義 (ja)
- Korean: 역사주의 (ko) (yeoksajuui)
- Kyrgyz: историзм (ky) (istorizm)
- Lithuanian: istorizmas (lt)
- Macedonian: историзам (mk) (istorizam)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: historisisme (no)
- Persian: تاریخگرایی (fa)
- Polish: historycyzm (pl)
- Portuguese: historicismo (pt)
- Romanian: istoricism (ro)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: historicizem (sl)
- Spanish: historicismo (es)
- Swedish: historicism (sv)
- Turkish: tarihselcilik (tr)
- Ukrainian: історизм (uk) (istoryzm)
- Urdu: تاریخیت (ur) (tārexet)