Essentialism

Philosophy, 1939

A word you can add to something which exists, in reality, which you don’t like to make it look really bad and discriminatory. It sounds intellectual™.

Essentialism has been around since Plato’s day. It means something is required and necessary for something to function (essence is prior to existence). Now a synonym for not being “progressive”.

• https://oed.com/view/Entry/64504
• https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&content=essentialism
• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=essentialism