Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The tendency to oversimplify an issue or a problem by ignoring complexities or complications.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The advocacy or cultivation of simplieity; hence, an affected or labored simplicity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The trait of
oversimplifying things by ignoringcomplexity andcomplications .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an act of excessive simplification; the act of making something seem simpler than it really is
- noun a simplification that goes too far (to the point of misrepresentation)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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By non-fundamentalist, I mean he opposes "simplism" or simple minded thinking.
Archive 2008-05-01 WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008
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By non-fundamentalist, I mean he opposes "simplism" or simple minded thinking.
what does it mean? WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008
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The economic situation is very much like that, and the ranting you hear about how it's going has major components grounded in simplism.
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Perhaps its because rather than insight and thoughtfulness, Greenwald and his black-and-white philosophical simplism comforts those who are too lazy or too insecure to do the heavy-lifting it would require to wrap their minds around complex issues, most of which resist being corraled into highly partisan explanations.
The "Stupid" Dialogue. Ann Althouse 2006
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Despite his descent into simplism and banality in his later work, this poem shows the brilliant talent he possessed as a young poet.
Archive 2006-10-01 Rus Bowden 2006
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Union would be historical simplism, because no man by himself could have created certain conditions.
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Blaming him for everything that happened would be historical simplism.
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Your analysis falls into the typical simplism of those who dont understand the complexity of our HCS and tends to be trivialize it in a simple argument of Amricans being backward and caring more for their money than their country's health and so on.
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A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
DB's Medical Rants 2008
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The issue of Clark’s supposed flip-flop on the war is as Josh Marshall says part of the media’s apparent embrace of “simplism as the new integrity.”
Hullabaloo 2003
qms commented on the word simplism
A fellow by name of Abe Chisolm
Could jive to the Trumpian rhythm,
And the pleasure he got
Was better than thought.
It's sweeter to swing to simplism.
March 30, 2017