originalism

1. 1.

   the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it

   Broaderbelief

Other forms of originalism

plural

originalisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about originalism

What does originalism mean?

originalism means "the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it".

How many syllables are in originalism?

originalism has 5 syllables: o-ri-gi-na-lism. The stress falls on "gi".

Is originalism a common word?

originalism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.