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reductivism

[ ri-duhk-tuh-viz-uhm ]

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  • re·ductiv·ist noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of reductivism1

First recorded in 1965–70; reductive + -ism
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Example Sentences

Seeing Kelly’s radical reductivism on such a grand scale was a provocation, one that redirected her trajectory.

There’s more to agree on about abortion than not, he said, but there’s a reductivism to political messaging.

Roston himself acknowledges the reductivism he’s engaged in when he writes, “I imagine reducing his book to a clinical diagnosis or, perhaps worse, putting it in the self-help category, would make Vonnegut shudder.”

In place of reductivism, she championed art that replenished painting with inwardness, subjectivity and lush brushwork.

There had to be a happier way to live, a comfort zone somewhere between recherché reductivism and A&E’s “Hoarders.”

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