verificationism
noun
verificationism is a noun meaning “Belief in the verifiability principle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-R-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of verificationism is verificationisms.
What does verificationism mean?
noun
- 1
Belief in the verifiability principle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of verificationism
- verificationisms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is verificationism?
Verificationism appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Verificationism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense belief in the verifiability principle:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Verifikationismus |
| Portuguese | verificacionismo |
| Spanish | verificacionismo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does verificationism come from?
From verification + -ism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).