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Date "ESSENTIALISM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Diversity | The practice of categorizing a group based on an artificial social construction that imparts an "essence" of that group, which homogenizes the group and effaces individuality and difference. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "ESSENTIALISM" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ESSENTIALISM" is used about 41 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) | 100% | 41 | 53,521 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ESSENTIALISM": anti-essentialism. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
essentialism | 33 |
education essentialism in | 3 |
education essentialism | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ESSENTIALISM": essentialisms. (additional references) | |
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"ESSENTIALISM" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: essentalism, essentialize. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-i-l-m-n-s-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: eliminates, enamelists, essentials, liminesses, matinesses, mesnalties, messalines, steaminess, timeliness. | |
-3 letters: alienisms, alienists, amenities, amnesties, eliminate, enamelist, essential, ilmenites, measliest, meatiness, melanists, melanites, melinites, messaline, metalises, mistiness, saltiness, sanitises, seaminess, sensitise, sliminess, slimsiest, smaltines, stainless, staleness, timelines. | |
-4 letters: ailments, alienism, alienist, aliments, animists, easiness, elastins, elitisms, enmities, etamines, etesians, ilmenite, isatines, itemises, lameness, lateness. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-i-l-m-n-s-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: essentialisms. | |
+2 letters: almightinesses, militantnesses. | |
+3 letters: existentialisms, sentimentalises, sentimentalisms, sentimentalists. | |
+4 letters: disestablishment, eclaircissements, inimitablenesses. | |
+5 letters: disestablishments, illimitablenesses, implicativenesses, indomitablenesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 53 53 45 4E 54 49 41 4C 49 53 4D |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. .. ... -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01010011 01010011 01000101 01001110 01010100 01001001 01000001 01001100 01001001 01010011 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E S S E N T I A L I S M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0053 0053 0045 004E 0054 0049 0041 004C 0049 0053 004D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)395353394854433546435347 |
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