reductivism
noun[U]
formaluk/rɪˈdʌk.tɪv.ɪ.zəm/us/rɪˈdʌk.tɪv.ɪ.zəm/thepracticeofconsideringorpresentingsomethingcomplicatedin asimpleway,especiallya way that is toosimple:
The reductivism of thesemodelsisinherentlyproblematicforsocialdecisionmaking.
He was amodernistarchitectknownfor his reductivism, whostrippedalldecorationfrom hisbuildings.
See
reductive
- The reductivism of herapproachisapparent.
- It is the veryessenceof reductivism totreathumanbeingsas things.
- Thefailureofscientificreductivismarisesbecausescienceisdiscoveringthatnature, like anylivingsystem, is inrelationships.
Elaborating, specifying and simplifying
- abstract
- anti-reductionism
- anti-reductionist
- broad brush
- broaden
- enlarge
- enlarge on/uponsomething
- expand
- expand onsomething
- expansively
- over-elaboration
- overgeneralization
- overgeneralize
- oversimplification
- oversimplify
- specificity
- specify
- split hairsidiom
- standardization
- standardize