Usually means: Philosophy denying universals, affirming particulars.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. nominalism: Merriam-Webster
  2. nominalism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nominalism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nominalism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nominalism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nominalism, nominalism: Wordnik
  7. nominalism: Wiktionary
  8. nominalism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. nominalism: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. nominalism: Dictionary.com
  11. Nominalism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Nominalism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. nominalism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. nominalism: Rhymezone
  15. Nominalism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. nominalism: FreeDictionary.org
  17. nominalism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. nominalism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. nominalism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nominalism: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. The Ism Book (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nominalism: Investopedia
  2. Nominalism: Financial dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nominalism: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. nominalism: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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noun:  (philosophy) A doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects.

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