Synonyms for evolutionism


Grammar : Noun
Spell : ev-uh-loo-shuh-nist or, esp. British, ee-vuh-
Phonetic Transcription : ˌɛv əˈlu ʃə nɪst or, esp. British, ˌi və-

Top 10 synonyms for evolutionism Other synonyms for the word evolutionism

Définition of evolutionism

Origin :
  • 1859, from evolution + -ist. Related: Evolutionism.
  • As in natural selection : noun evolutionary theory
  • As in survival of the fittest : noun theory of evolution
Example sentences :
  • That is to say that neo-Lamarckism is no more able than any other form of evolutionism to solve the problem.
  • Extract from : « Creative Evolution » by Henri Bergson
  • Thanks to M. Quinton, evolutionism should rather be termed revolutionism.
  • Extract from : « Philosophic Nights In Paris » by Remy De Gourmont
  • As a matter of taste, Lyell did not relish the application of evolutionism to his own species.
  • Extract from : « Charles Darwin » by Grant Allen
  • Long ago, in the infantile days of evolutionism, I often wondered why people made collections on such an irrational plan.
  • Extract from : « The Evolutionist at Large » by Grant Allen
  • And evolutionism is gradually though slowly filtering downward.
  • Extract from : « Charles Darwin » by Grant Allen
  • The Nestor of evolutionism, he had lived among two successive generations of thinkers, and over the third he ruled as king.
  • Extract from : « Charles Darwin » by Grant Allen
  • Such hazy and indistinct thinkers as these are still really at the prior stage of Lamarckian evolutionism.
  • Extract from : « Charles Darwin » by Grant Allen
  • In this way the end of evolutionism would be reduced to the end of utilitarianism.
  • Extract from : « On the Ethics of Naturalism » by William Ritchie Sorley
  • Darwin's Origin of Species appeared in 1859, and marked another step in Spencer's evolutionism.
  • Extract from : « Herbert Spencer » by J. Arthur Thomson
  • Always again the contradiction presents itself, socialism and anarchism; or, as deeply understood, evolutionism and revolutionism.
  • Extract from : « Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century » by Werner Sombart
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