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HEREDITARIANISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("hereditarianism" is a kind of...):
philosophical doctrine; philosophical theory (a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy)
Antonym:
environmentalism (the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth)
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