say it: PRAG-muh-tiz-uhm
pragmatism is a noun meaning "(philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value". It carries 2 recorded senses.
(philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value
philosophy
the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pragmatism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.