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uniformism

noun — 2 senses

uniformism

noun

Etymology From uniform + -ism.

1

A policy of, or belief in, uniformity or sameness.

  • The real issue at stake concerned differences in values and norms within cultures and countries, whereby pluralism clashed with uniformism.2013, Robert L. Cliquet, Kristiaan Thienpont, Population and Development, page 142:
2

Geography, Geology, Natural sciences The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the Earth; in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.

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