Darwinianismn.
/dɑːˈwɪnɪənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /dɑrˈwɪniəˌnɪzəm/ 1. Imitation of the poetic style of Erasmus Darwin (cf. Darwinism n. 1). rare. Now historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > style of an author, period, or work > style of specific author
Darwinianism1804
Johnsonianism1807
Johnsonism1807
Ossianesque1821
Johnsonese1831
Darwinism1840
Carlylese1858
Macaulayese1859
Ruskinese1863
Ruskinesque1873
Hegelese1886
Kiplingese1899
Borrovian1900
Runyonese1937
1804 Edinb. Rev. July 297 We can substantiate our charge of Darwinianism.
2009 A. Desmond & J. Moore Darwin's Sacred Cause i. 3 Verse made the doctor's love of sex and progress a political force. ‘Darwinianism’, it was dubbed—to versify in the manner of Erasmus Darwin.
2. The Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection; = Darwinism n. 2a. Also: an analogous theory of development through competition in other spheres; = Darwinism n. 2b. In quot. 1883: a Darwinian idiom or phrase.
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the world > life > biology > theories > [noun] > of genetics or evolution
theory of preformation1756
Darwinizing1807
development hypothesis1845
generationism1847
theory of evolution1858
Darwinism1860
Darwinianism1861
monogenesis1864
monogenism1865
monogeny1865
pangenesis1868
evolutionism1869
phylogeny1869
polygenism1871
derivation1874
phylogenesis1875
transformism1878
biogenetic law1879
gastraea theory1879
fortuitism1881
organicism1883
hereditism1884
kinetogenesis1884
Lamarckianism1884
Lamarckism1884
neo-Lamarckianism1884
monogenesy1885
neo-Lamarckism1887
preformationism1890
neo-Darwinism1891
blastogenesis1893
Haeckel-ismus1894
Weismannism1894
preformism1895
Haeckelism1899
mutation theory1902
directivity1903
Mendelianism1903
Mendelism1903
hereditarianism1906
mutationism1912
selectionism1912
hologenesis1931
parsimony1931
Morganism1934
Lysenkoism1948
neutralism1972
punctuated equilibrium1972
saltationism1975
punctuationism1977
punctuationalism1978
adaptationism1980
geneticism1984
adaptationalism1985
1861 G. Rorison Three Barriers 78 Darwinianism, like earlier schemes of development, is born of a difficulty..; what this or the other man can conceive is the limit of what Deity can do!
1883 E. M. Underdown in Notes & Queries 13 Oct. 284/2 I know not if any one..has noticed a literary ancestor, to use a Darwinianism, for that of Francis I after Pavia.
1893 J. H. Stirling (title) Darwinianism: workmen and work.
1915 A. E. Garvie Handbk. Christian Apologetics viii. 195 It was Nietzsche who transformed Darwinianism into a rule of action for man.
1977 New Scientist 24 Mar. 726/2 His claim was that after five generations..pads grew spontaneously on the virgin young. Darwinianism flatly denies that such a thing be possible.
2003 Observer (Nexis) 12 Jan. 30 It is a barefaced kickback to America's millionaires justified by the same appeal to economic Darwinianism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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