[
  {
    "meta": {
      "id": "essentialism",
      "uuid": "8ebbcbf2-30fc-4943-bf07-0bb675401b30",
      "sort": "050210700",
      "src": "collegiate",
      "section": "alpha",
      "stems": [
        "essentialism",
        "essentialisms",
        "essentialist",
        "essentialists"
      ],
      "offensive": false
    },
    "hwi": {
      "hw": "es*sen*tial*ism",
      "prs": [
        {
          "mw": "i-ˈsen(t)-shə-ˌli-zəm",
          "sound": {
            "audio": "essent04",
            "ref": "c",
            "stat": "1"
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "fl": "noun",
    "def": [
      {
        "sseq": [
          [
            [
              "sense",
              {
                "sn": "1",
                "dt": [
                  [
                    "text",
                    "{bc}an educational theory that ideas and skills basic to a culture should be taught to all alike by time-tested methods {dx}compare {dxt|progressivism||}{/dx}"
                  ]
                ]
              }
            ]
          ],
          [
            [
              "sense",
              {
                "sn": "2",
                "dt": [
                  [
                    "text",
                    "{bc}a philosophical theory ascribing ultimate reality to {a_link|essence} embodied in a thing perceptible to the senses {dx}compare {dxt|nominalism||}{/dx}"
                  ]
                ]
              }
            ]
          ],
          [
            [
              "sense",
              {
                "sn": "3",
                "dt": [
                  [
                    "text",
                    "{bc}the practice of regarding something (such as a presumed human trait) as having innate existence or universal validity rather than as being a social, ideological, or intellectual construct"
                  ]
                ]
              }
            ]
          ]
        ]
      }
    ],
    "uros": [
      {
        "ure": "es*sen*tial*ist",
        "prs": [
          {
            "mw": "i-ˈsen(t)-shə-list",
            "sound": {
              "audio": "essent05",
              "ref": "c",
              "stat": "1"
            }
          }
        ],
        "fl": "adjective or noun"
      }
    ],
    "date": "1927{ds||1||}",
    "shortdef": [
      "an educational theory that ideas and skills basic to a culture should be taught to all alike by time-tested methods",
      "a philosophical theory ascribing ultimate reality to essence embodied in a thing perceptible to the senses",
      "the practice of regarding something (such as a presumed human trait) as having innate existence or universal validity rather than as being a social, ideological, or intellectual construct"
    ]
  }
]