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say it: REL-uh-ti-viz-uhm
relativism is a noun meaning "(philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that all criteria of judgment are relative to the individuals and situations involved". It carries one recorded sense.
(philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that all criteria of judgment are relative to the individuals and situations involved
philosophy
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 relativism 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.