reductivism

[ri-duhk-tuh-viz-uhm]

noun

1. reductionism.

Other Word Forms

• reductivist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of reductivism¹

First recorded in 1965–70; reductive + -ism

Example Sentences

Seeing Kelly’s radical reductivism on such a grand scale was a provocation, one that redirected her trajectory.

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There’s more to agree on about abortion than not, he said, but there’s a reductivism to political messaging.

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Roston himself acknowledges the reductivism he’s engaged in when he writes, “I imagine reducing his book to a clinical diagnosis or, perhaps worse, putting it in the self-help category, would make Vonnegut shudder.”

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In place of reductivism, she championed art that replenished painting with inwardness, subjectivity and lush brushwork.

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There had to be a happier way to live, a comfort zone somewhere between recherché reductivism and A&E’s “Hoarders.”

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