historicism

 

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Calque of German Historismus, historic +‎ -ism.

historicism (countable and uncountable, plural historicisms)

1. A theory that events are influenced by historical conditions, rather than by people.
2. (art) The use of historical styles in contemporary art.
3. (theology) A method of interpretation in Christian eschatology which attempts to associate Biblical prophecies with actual historical events and symbolic beings with historical persons or societies.

• historicist

• futurism
• historism
• preterism