paradigm shift noun2 •A radical change in thinking from an accepted point of view to a new one, necessitated when new scientific discoveries produce anomalies in the current paradigm.Recently, there has been a radical paradigm shift taking hold in forums that attend to the education of DHH students. — 2002 •Any radical change, especially in politics or technology.So the fact that people are calling me, a woman of a certain age and demographic, to sit down on studio films — which have not been my bread and butter — there’s definitely a paradigm shift. — 2019 formsparadigm shifts