nothing-butteryn.
/ˌnʌθɪŋˈbʌt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌnəθɪŋˈbədəri/ = nothing-but-ism n.
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1961 Mind 70 100 There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus. ‘Love is..nothing more, and nothing less, than [etc.]’.
1981 M. Midgley Heart & Mind 16 The characteristic vice of reductionism is not its reference to nature, but its exclusiveness, its nothing-buttery.
1994 New Scientist 19 Nov. 63/3 Both are examples of what the late Donald Mackay used to call ‘nothing-buttery’ or. more formally, metaphysical reductionism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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