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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
simplism is a noun meaning "a simplification that goes too far (to the point of misrepresentation)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a simplification that goes too far (to the point of misrepresentation)
an act of excessive simplification; the act of making something seem simpler than it really is
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 simplism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.