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essentialism
  1. (philosophy) The view that objects have properties that are essential to them.
  2. (philosophy) The theory that human beings are by nature good and that evil is the product of society.
  3. (education) The doctrine that there are certain traditional concepts, values, and skills that are essential to society and should be taught to all students.
  4. A lifestyle that seeks to minimize nonessentials in order to focus on what is important.
  5. Examples:
    1. “Of course, Chesnutt exposes the fictiveness of a degraded black essentialism in Dr. Miller's upward mobility.”
      “For example, Pinker attributes opposition to genetically modified foods to innate and intuitive essentialism.”
      “Such essentialism turns profane spaces into sites that are released from any constraint as to their exchangeability and exploitation.”
essentiality
  1. The condition of being essential; a basic set of essential traits; being
  2. An essential thing.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “This relationship may account for a major portion of the nutritional essentiality of selenium.”
      “The study identifies unequivocally the essentiality of this gene for growth at low temperature.”
      “The essentiality of Japan-China cooperation to regional peace and stability cannot be over-emphasized.”
essential
essentialness
  1. The condition of being essential; essentiality
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Much has been said about the connection between his search for geographical belonging and his quest for essentialness in his poetry.”
      “The 330 titles in the Essential Cinema program vary widely in their essentialness, but there is no doubt about these.”
      “And I suppose the essentialness of writing for me was revealed in that experience.”
essentiability
  1. The quality of being essential; essentiality.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Further research on the essentiability of flavonoids as an essential food factor is needed.”
essentialization
  1. The process of essentializing.
essentialist
  1. An advocate of essentialism
essentializations
  1. plural of essentialization
essentialisms
  1. plural of essentialism
  2. Examples:
    1. “I think we need to sophisticate our understanding of cultural essentialisms, including gender ones, because it might help us deal better with issues of resistance.”
essentialists
  1. plural of essentialist
  2. Examples:
    1. “Those who believe motherhood to be the unchangeable essence of the female are known as essentialists.”
      “The essentialists are currently dominated by biological-oriented researchers who link sexual orientation to genetic, hormonal, and neuroanatomical factors.”
      “So the essentialists were right after all, one might conclude on learning that in many species there's evidence of sexual orientation and even same-sex pair-bonding.”
essentialities
essentials
  1. plural of essential
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The USA provided assistance in the form of an emergency airlift of food and other essentials known as Operation Provide Relief.”
      “Bob taught me the essentials of using the office coffee machine.”
      “They witness to an agreement of both churches on the essentials of faith on the basis of the common tradition of the ancient church.”
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