declensionism
nounUK /dɪˈklɛnʃənɪzəm/
Etymology From declension + -ism.
1
A belief in a declining trend in a history.
- By breaking free of it, historians could shed the dualisms that now entrap them, and escape the declensionism - the longing for the lost alternative2002, Melvyn Stokes, The state of U.S. history, page 74:
- Related terms
- declensionist