essentialist
/ɪˈsɛnʃəlɪst/
noun
- A person who believes that things have a fixed, unchanging essence or nature.
- Many essentialists claim that certain traits are innate and cannot be altered.
- As an essentialist, she argued that the core of human nature never changes.
- The debate between the essentialist and the constructionist lasted for hours.
Antonyms
adjective
- Relating to or characteristic of the belief that things have a fixed, unchanging essence.
- His essentialist view of culture ignores how traditions evolve over time.
- An essentialist approach to biology sometimes oversimplifies complex traits.
- The article criticized essentialist ideas about intelligence being purely genetic.