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Definition: Positivism |
PositivismNoun1. The form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation). 2. A quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "positivism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: PositivismSynonyms: logical positivism (n), positivity (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: negativism (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Heterodoxy | Protestantism, Arianism, Adventism, Jansenism, Stundism, Erastianism, Calvinism, quakerism, methodism, anabaptism, Puseyism, tractarianism, ritualism, Origenism, Sabellianism, Socinianism, Deism, Theism, materialism, positivism, |
Irreligion | Atheism; deism; hylotheism; materialism; positivism; nihilism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Positivism |
| English words defined with "positivism": Auguste Comte ♦ Comte ♦ Ernst Mach, Externalism ♦ Isidore Auguste Marie Francois Comte ♦ logical positivism, Ludwig Josef Johan Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein ♦ Mach ♦ positive, Positive philosophy, positivist, positivistic ♦ Religion of humanity ♦ Wittgenstein. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "positivism": Positivism. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Positivism" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (positivism). |
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| "Positivism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.51% of the time. "Positivism" is used about 203 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.51% | 202 | 21,454 |
| Noun (common) | 0.49% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 203 | N/A |
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Expression using "positivism": logical positivism. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "positivism": anti-positivism, post-positivism. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
positivism | 160 |
logical positivism | 17 |
legal positivism | 6 |
positivism post | 3 |
law positivism | 3 |
comte positivism | 2 |
paradigm positivism social theor | 2 |
auguste comte positivism | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "positivism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pozitivizm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الفلسفة الوضعية, ثقة (assurance, belief, certainty, certitude, confidence, credit, faith, reliable, reliance, sureness, surety, trust). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | позитивизъм. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pozitivizmus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | positivisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | positivismus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θετικισμόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pozitivizmus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | positivismo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 実証論 , 実証"学 , 実証主義 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じっしょうしゅぎ, じっしょうろ", じっしょうてつがく. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ositivismpay terminantemente (flatly, plump, point blank, strictly). (various references) pozitivism. (various references) позитивизм. (various references) pozitivnost, pozitivizam. (various references) positivismo (emotional realization, ideational realization, realism, realization). (various references) positivism. (various references) pozitivizm, pozitif din, olguculuk. (various references) позитивізм. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "positivism": positivisms. (additional references) | |
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"Positivism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apoliticism, dositejism, postitivism. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "positivism" (pronounced pÄ"zutivi'zum) |
| 8 | -u t i v i' z u m | negativism, relativism. |
| 7 | -t i v i' z u m | activism, collectivism, nativism. |
| 6 | -i v i' z u m | recidivism. |
| 5 | -v i' z u m | atavism, bolshevism. |
| 4 | -i' z u m | abolitionism, absenteeism, absolutism, adventurism, agrarianism, alcoholism, altruism, amateurism, anachronism, aneurism, animism, antagonism, aphorism, astigmatism, atheism, authoritarianism, autism, baptism, barbarism, bilingualism, boosterism, botulism, cannibalism, capitalism, catechism, centralism, chauvinism, classicism, colonialism, commercialism, communism, conservatism, consumerism, corporatism, counterterrorism, creationism, criticism, cronyism, cubism, cynicism, dandyism, defeatism, deism, despotism, determinism, diamagnetism, diastrophism, dimorphism, dogmatism, Druidism, dualism, dwarfism, dynamism, egalitarianism, egoism, egotism, electromagnetism, elitism, embolism, emotionalism, empiricism, entrepreneurialism, environmentalism, ergotism, eroticism, escapism, ethnocentrism, euphemism, evangelism, expansionism, expressionism, extremism, factionalism, fanaticism, fascism, fatalism, favoritism, federalism, feminism, ferromagnetism, fetishism, feudalism, formalism, fundamentalism, futurism, geotropism, gnosticism, gradualism, hedonism, helotism, heroism, hooliganism, humanism, hypnotism, idealism, illusionism, imperialism, impressionism, incrementalism, individualism, intellectualism, internationalism, interventionism, Irredentism, isolationism, isomorphism, jingoism, journalism, leftism, legalism, lesbianism, liberalism, lyricism, magnetism, mannerism, masochism, materialism, mechanism, mercantilism, mesmerism, metabolism, methodism, microorganism, militarism, minimalism, modernism, monasticism, monetarism, monism, monotheism, moralism, multiculturalism, multilateralism, mutualism, mysticism, narcissism, nationalism, naturalism, nepotism, neutralism, nihilism, obstructionism, opportunism, optimism, organism, ostracism, overoptimism, pacifism, paganism, parallelism, parkinsonism, parochialism, pastoralism, paternalism, patriotism, perfectionism, pessimism, pharisaism, pietism, plagiarism, pluralism, polymorphism, polytheism, populism, pragmatism, professionalism, protectionism, provincialism, puritanism, racialism, racism, radicalism, realism, republicanism, revisionism, rheumatism, romanticism, sadism, satanism, sectarianism, secularism, sensationalism, separatism, sexism, skepticism, socialism, statism, stoicism, supernaturalism, surrealism, symbolism, synergism, territorialism, terrorism, theism, tokenism, totalitarianism, tourism, truism, unionism, vandalism, vegetarianism, vigilantism, voluntarism, volunteerism, voyeurism. |
| 3 | -z u m | bosom, careerism, chasm, cytoplasm, enthusiasm, iconoclasm, ism, microcosm, neoplasm, orgasm, phantasm, prism, sarcasm, schism, spasm. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-i-m-o-p-s-s-t-v" | |
-3 letters: imposts, misstop, mitosis. | |
-4 letters: impost, miosis, pivots, posits, ptosis, stomps, visits, vomits. | |
-5 letters: impis, misos, mists, mitis, moist, mosts, omits, pisos, pivot, posit, posts, simps, spits, spivs, spots, stomp, stops, tipis, topis, visit, vomit. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-i-m-o-p-s-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: positivisms. | |
+4 letters: compulsivities, improvisations, oversimplistic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 73 69 74 69 76 69 73 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01101001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o s i t i v i s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0073 0069 0074 0069 0076 0069 0073 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50818575867588758579 |
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