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historisme

French, noun/is.tɔ.ʁism/

historisme is spelled H-I-S-T-O-R-I-S-M-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written French, the 244,837th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Historisme is a French masculine noun meaning “historism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Philosophie de l’histoire”.

What does historisme mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinehistorism

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Philosophie de l’histoire. 2. Souvent utilisé comme synonyme de historicisme.

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 historisme

  • historismes plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce historisme?

  • /is.tɔ.ʁism/
  • /is.tɔ.ʁizm/
  • \is.tɔ.ʁism\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is historisme in French?

historisme appears about once in every 60 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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