Darwinism

See also: darwinism

English

Etymology

From Darwin +‎ -ism, coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1860.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːwɪnɪzəm/

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Noun

Darwinism (countable and uncountable, plural Darwinisms)

1. Various concepts of development or evolution popularised by Charles Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859.
2. The principles of natural selection set out in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859), more strictly defined by August Weismann and developed by other authors into a central part of the modern evolutionary synthesis.

Synonyms

• Darwinianism

Derived terms

• social Darwinism

Related terms

• Darwinian
• Darwinist
• Darwinistic
• Darwinistically

 

Translations

principles of natural selection

• Armenian: դարվինիզմ (hy) (darvinizm)
• Bulgarian: дарвинизъм m (darvinizǎm)
• Catalan: darwinisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 達爾文主義／达尔文主义 (daat⁶ ji⁵ man⁴ zyu² ji³)

  Mandarin: 達爾文主義／达尔文主义 (zh) (Dá'ěrwén zhǔyì)

• Czech: darwinismus m
• Danish: darwinisme c
• Esperanto: darvinismo
• Finnish: darwinismi (fi)
• French: darwinisme (fr) m
• Galician: darwinismo m
• Georgian: დარვინიზმი (darvinizmi)
• German: Darwinismus (de) m
• Hungarian: darwinizmus (hu)
• Ido: Darwinismo (io)
• Interlingua: darwinismo
• Italian: darvinismo (it) m, darwinismo (it) m
• Japanese: ダーウィニズム (ja) (dāwinizumu)
• Kazakh: дарвинизм (darvinizm)
• Korean: 다윈주의 (ko) (dawinjuui), 다위니즘 (dawinijeum)
• Macedonian: дарвини́зам m (darvinízam)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: darwinisme m

  Nynorsk: darwinisme m

• Persian: داروینیسم (fa) (dârvinism)
• Polish: darwinizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: darvinismo (pt) m, darwinismo (pt) m
• Romanian: darvinism n
• Russian: дарвини́зм (ru) m (darvinízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дарвинѝзам m

  Roman: darvinìzam (sh) m

• Slovak: darvinizmus m
• Spanish: darvinismo (es) m, darwinismo m
• Swedish: darwinism (sv) c
• Turkish: Darvinizm, Darvincilik (tr)
• Ukrainian: дарвіні́зм m (darvinízm)

See also

• natural selection
• Nobel Prize
• survival of the fittest