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schematismo

schematism

noun skeh-mah-TEEZ-moh Rare
Mind & Emotions Mental States

Origin: From Greek schēmatismos, 'a giving of form', from schēma, 'form, figure'.

Also means

over-simplification

Usage Note

Schematismo refers to an excessive tendency to reduce complex matters to rigid schemes or formulas. In philosophy, particularly Kantian, it has a technical sense (the faculty of applying pure concepts to intuitions). In everyday criticism it implies reductive oversimplification: cadere nello schematismo (to fall into schematic thinking). Plural: schematismi.

Examples

"Il suo schematismo rende difficile affrontare i casi complessi."

Natural Translation

His schematism makes it difficult to deal with complex cases.

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