ORIGINALISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does originalism mean? 

• ORIGINALISM (noun)
  The noun ORIGINALISM has 1 sense:

1. the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it

  Familiarity information: ORIGINALISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORIGINALISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("originalism" is a kind of...):

belief (any cognitive content held as true)