Definition of "essentialist" [essentialist]

• An advocate of essentialism (noun)
• Of or pertaining to essentialism (adjective)

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• "And to me, she's very interesting because there is a school of -- of feminist thought today that is what we call essentialist and which believes that there is, somehow or other, an essential female or male psyche in -- in all of us."
• "So across the political spectrum, for anyone thinking in essentialist terms, the mores render the word anathema from both directions."
• "When I was at college the big no-no was this kind of essentialist thinking, in which biology was destiny."