单词 | technicalism |
释义 | technicalismn. Technical method or treatment; (excessive) use of or reliance on technical terms or procedure. Cf. technicality n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > instance of > in matters of detail pedantry1759 technicalism1808 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [noun] > quality of being specific or detailed > technical quality technicality1776 technicalism1808 technism1864 1808 J. Bentham Sc. Reform 80 Such ingenuity is not wanting to English-bred technicalism. 1857 J. Toulmin Smith Parish (new ed.) Pref. 111 Not frozen-up in dry technicalism, but dealing with the human reality attaching to an important Institution of free men. 1932 C. G. Shaw Trends of Civilization & Culture xxiv. 651 There was..the spirit of adventure in the XVIth century, of individualism in the XVIIIth, of evolution in the XIXth, and technicalism in the present one. 1953 Amer. Speech 28 195 The charges range from circumlocution..to euphemism, wooliness, and technicalism in language. 2003 B. P. West Professionalism & Accounting Rules vi. 124 The seeds of accounting technicalism—with accountants directed by instructions and rules rather than independent knowledge—were sown. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1808 |
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