essentialism

1. The metaphysical theory that the essential properties of an object can be distinguished from those that are accidental to it.

2. An educational theory that ideas and skills basic to a culture should be taught to all alike by time-tested methods .

3. A philosophical theory ascribing ultimate reality to embodied in a thing perceptible to the senses .

4. The practice of regarding something (as a presumed human trait) as having innate existence or universal validity rather than as being a social, ideological, or intellectual construct.

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
essentialism	14	Scrabble

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12 Letters	Scrabble® Points
essentialism	14