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Meaning of "technicism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TECHNICISM

technicism  [ˈtɛknɪsɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TECHNICISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Technicism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TECHNICISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Technicism

Technicism is an over reliance or overconfidence in technology as a benefactor of society. Taken to the extreme, some argue that technicism is the belief that humanity will ultimately be able to control the entirety of existence using technology. In other words, human beings will eventually be able to master all problems, supply all wants and needs, possibly even control the future. Some, such as Monsma, et al., connect these ideas to the abdication of religion as a higher moral authority. More commonly, technicism is a criticism of the commonly held belief that newer, more recently developed technology is "better." For example, more recently developed computers are faster than older computers, and more recently developed cars have greater gas efficiency and more features than older cars. Because current technologies are generally accepted as good, future technological developments are not considered circumspectly, resulting in what seems to be a blind acceptance of technological developments. Technicism has also been used as a synonym for technocracy, in the sense of the control of society by technicians or specialists; in this connection, see Robert D.

Definition of technicism in the English dictionary

The definition of technicism in the dictionary is a technical term or phrase. Other definition of technicism is the belief in the utility of technology for improving human societies.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TECHNICISM


agnosticism
æɡˈnɒstɪsɪzəm
anti-Catholicism
ˌæntɪkəˈθɒlɪsɪzəm
antiracism
ˌæntɪˈreɪsɪzəm
apocalypticism
əˌpɒkəˈlɪptɪsɪzəm
archaicism
ɑːˈkeɪɪsɪzəm
athleticism
æθˈlɛtɪsɪzəm
chromaticism
krəˈmætɪsɪzəm
didacticism
dɪˈdæktɪsɪzəm
ecumenicism
ˌiːkjʊˈmɛnɪsɪzəm
esotericism
ˌɛsəʊˈtɛrɪsɪzəm
ethnicism
ˈeθnɪsɪzəm
exoticism
ɪɡˈzɒtɪsɪzəm
metempiricism
ˌmetɪmˈpɪrɪsɪzəm
peripateticism
ˌpɛrɪpəˈtɛtɪsɪzəm
psychoticism
saɪˈkɒtɪsɪzəm
racism
ˈreɪsɪzəm
sardonicism
sɑːˈdɒnɪsɪzəm
scepticism
ˈskɛptɪsɪzəm
skepticism
ˈskɛptɪsɪzəm
superorganicism
ˌsuːpərɔːˈɡænɪsɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TECHNICISM

technical knockout
technical offence
technical school
technical sergeant
technical support
technicalise
technicalities
technicality
technicalize
technically
technicalness
technician
technicise
technicist
technicize
Technicolor
technicolored
technicolour
technicoloured
technics

WORDS THAT END LIKE TECHNICISM

aestheticism
Catholicism
classicism
criticism
cynicism
eclecticism
eroticism
fanaticism
fascism
historicism
literary criticism
lyricism
mosaicism
mysticism
neoclassicism
neuroticism
romanticism
scholasticism
self-criticism
textual criticism
witticism

Synonyms and antonyms of technicism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «technicism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TECHNICISM

Find out the translation of technicism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of technicism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «technicism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

技术主义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tecnicismo
570 millions of speakers

English

technicism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

technicism
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

technicism
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

техницизму
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tecnicismo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

technicism
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

techniciste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Teknik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Technizismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

技術主義
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

technicism
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Teknis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

technicism
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

technicism
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तांत्रवाद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

technicism
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tecnicismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

technicism
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

техніцизму
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tehnicism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

technicism
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tegnisisme
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

technicism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

technicism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of technicism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TECHNICISM»

The term «technicism» is used very little and occupies the 167.055 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TECHNICISM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «technicism» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «technicism» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TECHNICISM»

Discover the use of technicism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to technicism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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ThirdWay
In other words, modern technique is not in the grip of scientism, but science is controlled by technicism. Whoever has once grasped what technicism is, will come up against it frequently. Let me mention a few examples. We meet it when, at the ...
2
The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Apocalypse ...
The ideological mystification of technique does not by itself explain the power that technicism exercises over human beings. Insofar as every person exercises a linguistic capacity, each and every person must be induced to participate in the  ...
Darrell J. Fasching, 1993
3
Authenticity and Learning: Nietzsche's Educational Philosophy
3. Nature. and. technicism. Training 'breadwinners' and producing 'scholars' may not be polar opposites, for they have aims and enemies in common. There may be as much which unites as divides an education with utilitarian goals and one ...
David Cooper, 2010
4
The Fundamentals for the Twenty-First Century: Examining the ...
This latter perspective might best be called technicism, not technology. Such a view "reduces all things to the technological; it sees technology as the solution to all human problems and needs. Technology is a savior, the means to make ...
Mal Couch
5
Teacher Education: Professionalism, social justice and ...
In effect Bakhtin suggests that a form of aesthetic sensibility informs practical judgements which technicism cannot supplant. His work also supports the importance of novels (Carr, 1997) and other publicly available texts to teacher educators ...
David Hartley, Maurice Whitehead, 2006
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Responsible Technology: A Christian Perspective
TECHNICISM The powerful line of secularization present in modern Western culture has as its reigning characteristic the belief in human autonomy and power . Humankind has put itself at the center of all things and declares that it will find ...
Stephen V. Monsma, 1986
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Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Part I: My ...
In the extreme, technicism represents the belief that, using technology, humanity will ultimately be able to control the entirety of its existence. In other words, human beings will eventually be able to master all their problems, supply all their  ...
Patri K. Venuvinod, 2011
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Worldview as Worship: The Dynamics of a Transformative ...
Walsh and Middleton identify this belief as the god of technicism. Technicism allows for the proliferation of technology into mainstream culture as a means of controlling the environment. Technicism is embodied in the advertising slogan used ...
Eddie Karl Baumann, 2011
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The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Philosophy of Education
technicism. This chapter has made only limited progress in meeting this challenge, and not only because of shortage of space and the need to begin by describing and emphasising certain features of practical judgement.8 Proper execution of ...
Wilfred Carr, 2005
10
The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of ...
Its political eclipse in 1800 made Jeffersonian technicism rather than Hamilton's incipient professionalism the starting point of the American military tradition. TECHNICISM Jeffersonian Sources: The Principle Of Specialization. The American ...
Samuel P. Huntington, 1957

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TECHNICISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term technicism is used in the context of the following news items.
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Obama, Mass Incarceration and the “Extreme Center”
Enter the discourse of gradualism and technicism: risk assessment tools, evidence-based solutions, and re-packaged justice reinvestment. Enter the institutions ... «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
2
Diverse Opinions and Pressures in Greek Situation
Zizek says the real catastrophe aims, besides Greece, to all of Europe, as the opportunity to create a more humane old continent, instead the cold technicism of ... «Prensa Latina, Jul 15»
3
2015 Capital Fringe Review: 'Niche'
Hats off to Jane Franklin and her company for their grace, technicism, and vulnerability. They remind us to look deeply into our hearts, see the world around us, ... «DC Metro Theater Arts, Jul 15»
4
Materialism and the Devaluing of Life – Part 2
"Technicism," (the belief that through technology man can master all of reality) noted by Hook in an earlier presentation on bioethics, "ties in very well with the ... «Christian Post, Apr 15»
5
Barry Hill's quest for peace and harmony
... tugs of war: East v West, spirituality v materialism, disarming v arming, humanism v technicism, pacifism v militarism, national interests v world brotherhood. «Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 15»
6
Why Bahrain must reform – economically and politically
... tries to depoliticize social relations and to promote modernization in a certain variant of technicism or managerialism as a source of legitimacy of the regime.”. «Your Middle East, Feb 15»
7
'Ardor,' by Roberto Calasso
... the quasi-religious ideologies of individual and collective salvation — whether liberalism, communism, capitalism or technicism — were doomed to exhaustion ... «New York Times, Dec 14»
8
How Has Fiction Handled the Theme of Money?
... technologies, the migration of low-wage jobs to the newly industrializing countries, shifts in consumer habits, hubristic technicism and reckless financialization. «New York Times, Apr 14»
9
Neoliberalism in the Post-Apartheid Era: The Legacy of Nelson …
True, like all top-down policy formulations, Nepad reeks of technicism–a scent which could dissipate partially if exposed to the fires of popular debate, protest ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Dec 13»
10
Healthcare Reform: Using Medical Humanities as an Alternative …
Contemporary issues such as public distrust in medicine and “overspecialization; technicism; over-professionalism; [as well as] insensitivity to personal and ... «Triple Helix Online, Mar 12»

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