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    From conceptual + -ism.

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    conceptualism (countable and uncountable, plural conceptualisms)

    1. The art movement towards conceptual art.
    2. (philosophy) A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects; the doctrine that universals have an existence in the mind apart from any concrete embodiment.
      • 1853, Victor Cousin, Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good:
        We have thus returned, then, to that conceptualism of the middle age, which, concentrating truth within the human intelligence, makes the nature of things a phantom of intelligence projecting itself everywhere out of itself []

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from French conceptualisme. By surface analysis, conceptual +‎ -ism.

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    conceptualism n (uncountable)

    1. conceptualism

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    singular only indefinite definite
    nominative-accusative conceptualism conceptualismul
    genitive-dative conceptualism conceptualismului
    vocative conceptualismule