practicalismn.

Brit.

/ˈpraktᵻkəlɪz(ə)m/,

/ˈpraktᵻkl̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S.

/ˈpræktəkəˌlɪz(ə)m/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: practical adj., -ism suffix.

Etymology: < practical adj. + -ism suffix. With sense 1 compare earlier practicality n. With sense 2a compare pragmatism n. 4a and slightly later practicism n. 1. In sense 2b after German Praktizismus (1950 or earlier), itself after Russian prakticizm (see practicism n.); compare earlier practicism n. 3.

1. Interest in or attention to practical matters or activities; practicality.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > expediency > expedience > [noun] > pragmatism or practicality

practicalness1657

pragmaticality1836

practicality1841

practicalism1843

pragmatism1872

thinginess1891

Kitchenerism1901

hard-boiledness1912

1843 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 146 Among the Parliamentary men belonging to Hardingston's set, there prevailed a tendency to practicalism, the origin of the sect of Utilitarians.

1856 J. Grote in Cambr. Ess. 88 The very practicalism of the English has guarded them against much mistaken and superficial practicalism.

1914 Lima (Ohio) Daily News 1 Feb. ii. 1/1 Practicalism in a girl is as much to be admired as beauty.

1997 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 4 May b.9 ‘Which would you prefer: Paying taxes and letting the government solve social problems, or volunteering time each week to help solve those problems yourself?’ The answers reflected a combination of generosity and practicalism.

a. Philosophy. = pragmatism n. 4a (see quots.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > pragmatism > [noun]

practicalism1898

pragmatism1898

pragmaticism1904

practicism1909

1898 W. James Philos. Concept. & Pract. Results 5 The principle of practicalism or pragmatism, as he [sc. C. S. Peirce] called it, when I first heard him enunciate it at Cambridge [Mass.] in the early '70s, is the clue..by following which..we may keep our feet upon the proper trail.

1905 C. S. Peirce Coll. Papers (1934) V. 273 Some of his friends wished him to call it [sc. pragmatism] practicism or practicalism... But for one who had learned philosophy out of Kant..praktisch and pragmatisch were as far apart as two poles, the former belonging in a region of thought where no mind of the experimentalist type can ever make sure of solid ground under his feet, the latter expressing relation to some definite human purpose.

1999 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 59 1032 In eschewing the label ‘practicalism’, Peirce held that the pragmatic, hypothetical, a posteriori statements..were markedly different from Kant's practical, categorical, a priori laws of morality.

b. Politics. depreciative. In communist phraseology: excessive attention to practical matters at the expense of theory.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > faults according to communist theory

revisionism1856

practicism1931

objectivism1933

reification1937

tailism1948

practicalism1950

diversionism1955

capitulationism1963

1950 Times 14 Jan. 5/5 A new party crime has been added to the Communist calendar in east Germany...Praktizismus, which might be translated into English as ‘practicalism’, consists in paying too much attention to the job in hand and not enough to Communist ideology.

1963 R. C. Tucker Soviet Polit. Mind ix. 181 Krushchev..has been criticized by certain elements within the Soviet Communist Party for being insufficiently so [sc. theory-oriented]. He has rejected their charge of ‘practicalism’.

1984 J. Harris in R. H. Linden & B. A. Rockman Elite Stud. & Communist Politics 305 Suslov..had often sharply attacked Khrushchev's ‘practicalism’ and had refused to support his revisions of Stalinist orthodoxy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	practicalism
释义	practicalismn. Brit. /ˈpraktᵻkəlɪz(ə)m/, /ˈpraktᵻkl̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈpræktəkəˌlɪz(ə)m/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: practical adj., -ism suffix. Etymology: < practical adj. + -ism suffix. With sense 1 compare earlier practicality n. With sense 2a compare pragmatism n. 4a and slightly later practicism n. 1. In sense 2b after German Praktizismus (1950 or earlier), itself after Russian prakticizm (see practicism n.); compare earlier practicism n. 3. 1. Interest in or attention to practical matters or activities; practicality. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > expediency > expedience > [noun] > pragmatism or practicality practicalness1657 pragmaticality1836 practicality1841 practicalism1843 pragmatism1872 thinginess1891 Kitchenerism1901 hard-boiledness1912 1843 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 146 Among the Parliamentary men belonging to Hardingston's set, there prevailed a tendency to practicalism, the origin of the sect of Utilitarians. 1856 J. Grote in Cambr. Ess. 88 The very practicalism of the English has guarded them against much mistaken and superficial practicalism. 1914 Lima (Ohio) Daily News 1 Feb. ii. 1/1 Practicalism in a girl is as much to be admired as beauty. 1997 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 4 May b.9 ‘Which would you prefer: Paying taxes and letting the government solve social problems, or volunteering time each week to help solve those problems yourself?’ The answers reflected a combination of generosity and practicalism. 2. a. Philosophy. = pragmatism n. 4a (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > pragmatism > [noun] practicalism1898 pragmatism1898 pragmaticism1904 practicism1909 1898 W. James Philos. Concept. & Pract. Results 5 The principle of practicalism or pragmatism, as he [sc. C. S. Peirce] called it, when I first heard him enunciate it at Cambridge [Mass.] in the early '70s, is the clue..by following which..we may keep our feet upon the proper trail. 1905 C. S. Peirce Coll. Papers (1934) V. 273 Some of his friends wished him to call it [sc. pragmatism] practicism or practicalism... But for one who had learned philosophy out of Kant..praktisch and pragmatisch were as far apart as two poles, the former belonging in a region of thought where no mind of the experimentalist type can ever make sure of solid ground under his feet, the latter expressing relation to some definite human purpose. 1999 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 59 1032 In eschewing the label ‘practicalism’, Peirce held that the pragmatic, hypothetical, a posteriori statements..were markedly different from Kant's practical, categorical, a priori laws of morality. b. Politics. depreciative. In communist phraseology: excessive attention to practical matters at the expense of theory. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > faults according to communist theory revisionism1856 practicism1931 objectivism1933 reification1937 tailism1948 practicalism1950 diversionism1955 capitulationism1963 1950 Times 14 Jan. 5/5 A new party crime has been added to the Communist calendar in east Germany...Praktizismus, which might be translated into English as ‘practicalism’, consists in paying too much attention to the job in hand and not enough to Communist ideology. 1963 R. C. Tucker Soviet Polit. Mind ix. 181 Krushchev..has been criticized by certain elements within the Soviet Communist Party for being insufficiently so [sc. theory-oriented]. He has rejected their charge of ‘practicalism’. 1984 J. Harris in R. H. Linden & B. A. Rockman Elite Stud. & Communist Politics 305 Suslov..had often sharply attacked Khrushchev's ‘practicalism’ and had refused to support his revisions of Stalinist orthodoxy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1843
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