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occasionalism

noun

Etymology

From occasional + -ism.

  1. derived from ocasionel
  2. derived from occāsiōnālis
  3. inherited from occasyonal
  4. suffixed as occasionalism — “occasional + ism”

Definitions

  1. A metaphysical doctrine that holds that all events are occasioned (caused) by God.

  2. A nonce word.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for occasionalism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA