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elementalism|ɛlɪˈmɛntəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. elemental a. + -ism.]
1. A method or theory which divinizes the elemental powers of nature.
1863Duff in Chr. Work July 273 Elementalism, if I may coin a word, the worship chiefly of the Fire, the Air, the Water and the Sun. 1882Ogilvie Suppl., Elementalism, the theory which identifies the divinities of the ancients with the elemental powers. Gladstone.
2. A system based upon elemental forces or characters.
1921Glasgow Herald 8 Jan. 4 An incompetent charlatan, performing in public under the guise of ‘sublime elementalism’ his worthless exercises. 1921Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Feb. 106/4 To reduce two women, one the embodiment of inherited fastidiousness, the other touched with intellectual greatness, to a common level of elementalism.
3. The verbal separation into separate concepts or entities of things which cannot be separated empirically or physically, e.g. space and time, mind and body. So elementaˈlistic a.
1933A. Korzybski Science & Sanity i. 24 Meanings, and the meanings of meanings, with their inseparable affective components, give us..the non-elementalistic foundation on which all civilization and culture depends...The psychological mechanism is extremely simple and necessitates a breaking away from the older elementalism. But it is usually very difficult for any given individual to break away from this older elementalism, as it involves the established s.r...the semantic reaction. 1946S. A. Hayakawa in W. S. Knickerbocker 20th Cent. Eng. i. 50 We have been defining man in non⁓functional and elementalistic terms. |