historicisme
French, noun/is.tɔ.ʁi.sism/
historicisme is spelled H-I-S-T-O-R-I-C-I-S-M-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 108,277th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Historicisme is a French masculine noun meaning “historicism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pratique consistant à revenir à l’usage de styles historiques anciens”.
What does historicisme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehistoricism
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pratique consistant à revenir à l’usage de styles historiques anciens. 2. Concept selon lequel l’histoire permet de prédire les événements futurs. 3. Courant de pensée économique fondé sur un rejet de la méthodologie déductive et anhistorique de l’économie « classique » et qui propose de théoriser l’économie en l’inscrivant dans un temps historique réel pour en saisir la spécificité historique.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of historicisme
- historicismes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce historicisme?
- /is.tɔ.ʁi.sism/
- /is.tɔ.ʁi.sizm/
- \is.tɔ.ʁi.sism\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to historicisme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is historicisme in French?
historicisme appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).