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Definition: Functionalism |
FunctionalismNoun1. A psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an organism in adapting to the environment. 2. Any doctrine that stresses utility or purpose. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Functionalism |
| English words defined with "functionalism": functionalist. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Structural-functionalism takes the view that society consists of parts (e.g. police, hospitals, schools, and farms), each of which has its own function. Structural-functionalism was the dominant perspective of rural sociologists, although its dominance is waning.
Famous functionalists include:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Functionalism."
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| "Functionalism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Functionalism" is used about 123 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% | 123 | 28,925 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "functionalism": neo-functionalism, structural-functionalism. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "functionalism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وظائفية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | funktionalisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | funktionalismi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fonctionnarisme, fonctionalisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | funktionalismus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λειτουργισμός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | funkcionalizmus, gyakorlatiassági elv, célszerűségi elv. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | fungsionalisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | funzionalismo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 機能主義 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きのうしゅぎ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unctionalismfay funcionalismo. (various references) funktionalism. (various references) thuyết chức năng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "functionalism": functionalisms. (additional references) | |
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"Functionalism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fontinalis, fuctionalism, functionalish, functionals, functonalism, funtionalism. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-i-i-l-m-n-n-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: culminations, fulminations, malfunctions. | |
-2 letters: culmination, fulmination, malfunction, misfunction. | |
-3 letters: anilinctus, clintonias, functional, incautions, inflations, inoculants, insouciant, insulation, nominalist, nonmusical, simulation. | |
-4 letters: aconitums, actiniums, antinomic, clintonia, columnist, continual, countians, culminant, faunistic, fictional, fountains, fulminant, functions, inactions, incaution, inclusion, inflation, inoculant, insomniac, lunations, malicious, mannitols, mountains, munitions, onanistic, suctional. | |
-5 letters: aconitum, actinism, actinium, actinons, aluminic, amnionic, amniotic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-i-i-l-m-n-n-o-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: functionalisms, semifunctional. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 75 6E 63 74 69 6F 6E 61 6C 69 73 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110101 01101110 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F u n c t i o n a l i s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0075 006E 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E 0061 006C 0069 0073 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40878069867581806778758579 |
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