practicalism

[prak-ti-kuh-liz-uhm]

noun

1. devotion to practical matters.

Other Word Forms

• practicalist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of practicalism¹

First recorded in 1835–45; practical + -ism

Example Sentences

Now the principle of practicalism says that that very meaning of the conception of God lies in the differences which must be made in experience if the conception be true.

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It is capitalism, not socialism, said he, "that places science within the framework of practicalism."

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We must have the church and state in order that we may have their souls, idealism and practicalism.

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Political practicalism is a social soul of which the state should be the embodiment.

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He had besides, the stolidity of the German, and their cool calculating practicalism.

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