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Associational :: Associational (a.) Pertaining to the theory held by the associationists.

Esthetics :: Esthetics (n.) The theory or philosophy of taste; the science of the beautiful in nature and art; esp. that which treats of the expression and embodiment of beauty by art.

Evolutionism :: Evolutionism (n.) The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7..

Plutonist :: Plutonist (n.) One who adopts the geological theory of igneous fusion; a Plutonian. See Plutonism.

Impressionism :: Impressionism (n.) The theory or method of suggesting an effect or impression without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a recent fashion in painting and etching.

Darwinism :: Darwinism (n.) The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above.

Idealism :: Idealism (n.) The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations..

Vitalist :: Vitalist (n.) A believer in the theory of vitalism; -- opposed to physicist.

Plutonism :: Plutonism (n.) The theory, early advanced in geology, that the successive rocks of the earth's crust were formed by igneous fusion; -- opposed to the Neptunian theory..

Epistemology :: Epistemology (n.) The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge.

Catastrophist :: Catastrophist (n.) One who holds the theory or catastrophism.

Aretaics :: Aretaics (n.) The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics.

Eclecticism :: Eclecticism (n.) Theory or practice of an eclectic.

Degenerationist :: Degenerationist (n.) A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state..

Paternalism :: Paternalism (n.) The theory or practice of paternal government. See Paternal government, under Paternal..

Ovulist :: Ovulist (n.) A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist..

Kindergarten :: Kindergarten (n.) A school for young children, conducted on the theory that education should be begun by gratifying and cultivating the normal aptitude for exercise, play, observation, imitation, and construction; -- a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden..

Constitutionalism :: Constitutionalism (n.) The theory, principles, or authority of constitutional government; attachment or adherence to a constitution or constitutional government..

Bowwow :: Bowwow (a.) Onomatopoetic; as, the bowwow theory of language; a bowwow word..

Conceptualism :: Conceptualism (n.) A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects..

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