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PRONUNCIATION OF DIFFUSIONIST

diffusionist  [dɪˈfjuːʒənɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIFFUSIONIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Diffusionist is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DIFFUSIONIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

diffusionist

Trans-cultural diffusion

In cultural anthropology and cultural geography, cultural diffusion, as first conceptualized by Leo Frobenius in his 1897/98 publication Der westafrikanische Kulturkreis, is the spread of cultural items—such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, languages etc.—between individuals, whether within a single culture or from one culture to another. It is distinct from the diffusion of innovations within a single culture. Diffusion across cultures is a well-attested and also uncontroversial phenomenon. For example, the practice of agriculture is widely believed to have diffused from somewhere in the Middle East to all of Eurasia, less than 10,000 years ago, having been adopted by many pre-existing cultures. Other established examples of diffusion include the spread of the war chariot and iron smelting in ancient times, and the use of cars and Western business suits in the 20th century.

Definition of diffusionist in the English dictionary

The definition of diffusionist in the dictionary is supporting, relating to or according to diffusionism.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DIFFUSIONIST


contagionist
kənˈteɪdʒənɪst
coreligionist
ˌkəʊrɪˈlɪdʒənɪst
correligionist
ˌkəʊrɪˈlɪdʒənɪst
delusionist
dɪˈluːʒənɪst
divisionist
dɪˈvɪʒənɪst
ethnogenist
ɛθˈnɒdʒənɪst
eugenist
ˈju:dʒənɪst
exclusionist
ɪkˈskluːʒənɪst
geomorphogenist
ˌdʒiːəʊmɔːˈfɒdʒənɪst
illusionist
ɪˈluːʒənɪst
infusionist
ɪnˈfjuːʒənɪst
intrusionist
ɪnˈtruːʒənɪst
irreligionist
ˌɪrɪˈlɪdʒənɪst
perfusionist
pəˈfjuːʒənɪst
precisionist
prɪˈsɪʒənɪst
religionist
rɪˈlɪdʒənɪst
revisionist
rɪˈvɪʒənɪst
seclusionist
sɪˈkluːʒənɪst
transfusionist
trænsˈfjuːʒənɪst
visionist
ˈvɪʒənɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIFFUSIONIST

diffused junction
diffusedly
diffusedness
diffusely
diffuseness
diffuser
diffusibility
diffusible
diffusibleness
diffusion
diffusion coefficient
diffusion constant
diffusion line
diffusional
diffusionism
diffusive
diffusively
diffusiveness
diffusivity
diffusor

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIFFUSIONIST

accordionist
agonist
antagonist
cartoonist
communist
dental receptionist
educationist
evolutionist
exhibitionist
expressionist
fashionist
impressionist
nutritionist
perfectionist
projectionist
protagonist
receptionist
reductionist
revolutionist
saxophonist
Zionist

Synonyms and antonyms of diffusionist in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «diffusionist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DIFFUSIONIST

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The translations of diffusionist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «diffusionist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

传播论
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

difusionista
570 millions of speakers

English

diffusionist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Diffusionist
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

diffusionist
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

диффузионистских
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

diffusionist
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

diffusionist
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

diffusionniste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penyebaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

diffusionistischen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

diffusionist
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

diffusionist
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Diffusionist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

diffusionist
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

diffusionist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रसारक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yayılımcılık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

diffusionista
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

odmiennej
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

діффузіоністскіх
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

diffusionist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

diffusionist
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

diffusionist
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

diffusionist
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

diffusionist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of diffusionist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIFFUSIONIST»

The term «diffusionist» is used very little and occupies the 175.948 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DIFFUSIONIST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about diffusionist

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIFFUSIONIST»

Discover the use of diffusionist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to diffusionist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Building of British Social Anthropology: W.H.R. Rivers ...
Thus, a diffusionist, asked to explain say, an Australian boomerang, would be less concerned with its function as a weapon, or with its role as a preserver of the socio-economic differentiation between men and women, or with its evolution from ...
Ian Langham, 1981
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Aesthetics and Analysis in Writing on Religion: Modern ...
Explaining. Together. The. Excitement. of. Diffusionist. Ideas. Emerging in a fragmented discipline that fosters individual insights, group projects in religious studies have been much more the exception than the rule. Usually small-scale and ...
Daniel Gold, 2003
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International Review of Cytology
However, the contrary diffusionist view was not corroborated either, and even if the mechanism turns out to be diffusionist rather than solid-state, it seems that (a) the actual process involved is highly unlikely to be diffusion per se, (b) the ...
‎1996
4
The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists
The diffusionist schools Diffusionism holds that the phenomenon of diffusion of cultural elements forms the principle by which civilizations develop. Inspired by museological techniques for the classification of artefacts and the analysis of ...
Gérald Gaillard, 2004
5
Views of Ancient Egypt since Napoleon Bonaparte: Imperialism ...
megaliths, diffusionist theory of 143–144; Mesoamerican culture, diffusionist theory of 131, 136; mummification, diffusionist theory 128–130, 133; Perry, collaboration with 130, 132, 133, 136; Petrie, relationship with 131; Rockefeller Foundation ...
David Jeffreys, 2012
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The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical ...
are used within the diffusionist belief structure, although they are also used in other structures. (Some examples to be discussed in Chapter 2 are: beliefs about demographic behavior, about intelligence, about the origins of civilization, about  ...
J.M. Blaut, 2012
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One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and ...
Walter Krickeberg and Hermann Baumann, both in Berlin, and Hans Plischke in Göttingen were the best-known representatives of this secular variant of diffusionist culture history in the Third Reich. In institutional terms, the historical ...
Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, 2010
8
Archaeology in Latin America
Rivet's work was characterised by a diffusionist approach to archaeology within culture-historical interpretations—where the studied features were always compared to similar ones from other cultures—aimed at answering questions in terms of ...
Benjamin Alberti, Gustavo G. Politis, 2005
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Copulae in the Arabic Noun Phrase: A Unified Analysis of ...
Simply put, the findings in (IV–VI) are best suited to a hybrid model of diachrony, specifically, the genetic-diffusionist model adopted by Garbini and Durand (1994) , and owens (2006), which favors the role of language contact, albeit without ...
Francesco Grande, 2013
10
The Savage Within: The Social History of British ...
The conclusion of the diffusionist saga varies with the narrator. Anthropologists' version of the story tells us less about the intrinsic bankruptcy of diffusionist ideas than about the divorce of anthropology from psychology that occurred in Britain ...
Henrika Kuklick, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIFFUSIONIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term diffusionist is used in the context of the following news items.
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Remembering A R Desai
Apart from the geographical region-based schools of social thought, there were several approaches of studying society like the Diffusionist ... «Economic and Political Weekly, Apr 15»
2
'Alex from Target': Can I Do This With My Brand?
... Seth Godin's Idea Virus, or Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point, this so-called diffusionist model has truly become a metaphor we live by. «Huffington Post, Nov 14»
3
Thor Heyerdahl's 100th Birthday Marked by a Google Doodle
The Kon-Tiki expedition was later used as basis for the diffusionist model of cultural development, also known as 'trans-cultural diffusion', ... «NDTV, Oct 14»
4
Sexuality and Solidarity after Gezi
Massad's analysis offers us a purist and diffusionist division of the universe into two mutually exclusive realms, whereby only one of these two ... «CounterPunch, Jul 13»
5
Studies in Sri Lankan Archaeology and History
And he criticises both for falling into what he describes as the 'diffusionist trap' and for their willingness to regard Sri Lanka as merely a ... «The Island.lk, Mar 13»
6
Must be Indian: Human Settlement in Australia
Writing in 1997, McNiven and Russell claimed that, “Walsh, in refuelling a diffusionist debate, has resurrected a colonialist standpoint that has ... «International Policy Digest, Jan 13»
7
The agricultural "express train"
There is a high probability that the basic fundamental assumptions of the original diffusionist model, whether cultural or genetic, were pushed ... «Discover Magazine, Mar 12»
8
Professor John Evans
Evans rejected the "diffusionist" theory that such development could not have come about without the influence of hypothetical "invaders" from a ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 11»
9
There was scale and structure before history
... the whole world, was pigeon-holed into two maximalist models: cultural or demographic diffusionist. Neither of these models were maximalist ... «Discover Magazine, May 11»
10
Did Weak Copyright Laws Help Germany Outpace The British Empire?
The acceleration was due to more rapid technological progress, and to the diffusionist forces unleashed by the liberal economic order of which ... «Wired News, Aug 10»

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« EDUCALINGO. Diffusionist [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/diffusionist>. Jun 2026 ».
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