Declensionism

//dɪˈklɛnʃənɪzəm// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A belief in a declining trend in a history. uncountable

    "By breaking free of it, historians could shed the dualisms that now entrap them, and escape the declensionism - the longing for the lost alternative"

Example

More examples

"By breaking free of it, historians could shed the dualisms that now entrap them, and escape the declensionism - the longing for the lost alternative"

Etymology

From declension + -ism.

More for "declensionism"

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.