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Noun: nominalism  'nó-mi-nu,li-zum
  1. (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labelled by the same term have nothing in common but their name

Derived forms: nominalisms

Type of: philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory

Encyclopedia: Nominalism, Realism, Conceptualism