a fortiori

NB - Pronunciation of Norwegian Bokmål «a fortiori».ogg

From both Latin ā (“from, away from, out of”), alternative form of ab (“from, away from, out of, down from”) by apocope (not used before a vowel or h), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”), and from fortiōrī, comparative of fortis (“strong”), from Proto-Italic *forktis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise, high, hill”).

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begrepet «a fortiori» anvendes i matematiske og logiske argumenter, hvis f.eks. a er større enn b og b større enn c, så er «a fortiori» a større enn c
the term «a fortiori» is used in mathematical and logical arguments, if e.g. a is greater than b and b greater than c, then «a fortiori» a is greater than c

Norge … har vært forpliktet til ikke å bestride den danske suverenitet over hele Grønland og à fortiori til å avholde sig fra å okkupere en del av landet

Norway… has been obliged not to contest the Danish sovereignty over the whole of Greenland and a fortiori to refrain from occupying part of the country

hvis man … kan vise at fengslet faktisk ikke er så gjennomsyret av disiplinformer som Foucault vil ha det til, så faller følgelig også a fortiori påstanden om at samfunnet skulle være disiplinært

1997, Espen Schaanning, Vitenskap som skapt viten, page 298:

if one… can show that the prison is in fact not as permeated by forms of discipline as Foucault wants it to be, then consequently also falls a fortiori the claim that society should be disciplinary

de kan ikke a fortiori – desto mer – utelukke å finne semantisk innhold også i religiøse ytringer

they cannot a fortiori - all the more - exclude finding semantic content also in religious utterances

(rhetoric, logic) a fortiori (with stronger or greater reason; as a corollary implied by a stronger claim.)


transhumanism

en-noun

transhumanism (countable and uncountable, plural transhumanisms)

From trans- + humanism, coined by British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author Julian Huxley in 1957.

coin

Those who favor transhumanism speak the language of individual choice and freedom from institutional authoritarianism; those who challenge it speak the language of human dignity and human nature as embodied in the individual.

2011, Braden R. Allenby, Daniel Sarewitz, The Techno-Human Condition, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 87:

A philosophy favouring the use of science and technology, especially neurotechnology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, to overcome human limitations and improve the human condition.

transhumanisme

philosophy favoring the use of science and technology


enamoured

en-adj

enamoured (comparative more enamoured, superlative most enamoured)

more enamoured (comparative)
most enamoured (superlative)

UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada spelling of enamored


enamoured

English: enamoured, enamored

Scots: enamoured

Partial calque of Old French enamore, past participle of enamorer; equivalent to (and sometimes influenced by) en- + amour + -ed.


lovingkindness

en-noun

lovingkindness (countable and uncountable, plural lovingkindnesses)

From loving + kindness. The word arises in the King James Version of the Bible as a translation of Hebrew חסד (ḥeseḏ, “grace, kindness, love; chesed”).

cog

But let him that glorieth, glory in this, that hee vnderſtandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exerciſe louing kindneſſe, iudgement, and righteouſneſſe in the earth: for in these things I delight, ſaith the Lord.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 9:24:

[…] My loving kindneſſe, my mercifull diſposition is a great bond, but my faithfulneſſe ſhall binde me also, I will be content to ingage my ſelfe to you, to ingage all that I am, and all that I have to you, that you may certainly confide in me, ſo as you may not onely expect it from my love, but challenge it from my faithfulneſſe.

1643, Jer. Burroughes [i.e., Jeremiah Burroughs], “The Nineteenth Lecture: Hosea 2. 20, 21, 22, 23.”, in An Exposition of the Prophecie of Hosea. Begun in Divers Lectures upon the First Three Chapters, at Michaels Cornhill, London, London: Printed by W. E. and J. G. for R. Dawlman, →OCLC, page 651:

What a comfort is it for chriſtian friends to relate to each other the loving-kindneſs of the Lord? O let his praiſes be ever in our mouths, that we may be telling of his ſalvation from day to day.

1736 April 2, George Whitefield, “Letter XI. To the Same [Mr. H.]”, in The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A., Late of Pembroke-College, Oxford, and Chaplain to the Rt. Hon. the Countess of Huntingdon. Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which have already been Published: With a Select Collection of Letters, Written to His Most Intimate Friends, and Persons of Distinction, in England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, from the Year 1734, to 1770, including the Whole Period of His Ministry. Also Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, never before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press. To which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Original Papers and Letters, London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry; Edinburgh: Messrs. Kincaid and Bell, published 1771, →OCLC, page 13:

Awake, my soul, to joyful lays, / And sing the great Redeemer's praise; / He justly claims a song from me: / His loving-kindness, oh, how free!

1867, [Charles Seymour Robinson], “Loving-kindness”, in Songs for the Sanctuary: Or, Hymns and Tunes for Christian Worship, New York, N.Y.: A. S. Barnes & Co., 111 & 113 William Street, (Corner of John Street.), →OCLC, page 238:

Have we ever had the shadow of a reason to doubt our Father's goodness? Have not His loving-kindnesses been marvellous? Has he once failed to justify our trust? Ah, no! our God has not left us at any time.

1867, C[harles] H[addon] Spurgeon, “Oct. 17. ‘And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul.’ — 1 Samuel xxvii. 1.”, in Morning by Morning; or, Daily Readings for the Family or the Closet, New York, N.Y.: Sheldon and Company, 498 and 500 Broadway, →OCLC, page 291:

In just the same way, the force of metta, lovingkindness, allows us to cohere, to come together within ourselves and with all beings. The beauty of this truth moved the Buddha to say that sustaining a loving heart, even for the duration of the snap of a finger, makes one a truly spiritual being.

1997, Sharon Salzberg, “Mercy”, in Kathleen Hughes, Joseph A. Favazza, editors, A Reconciliation Sourcebook (The Sourcebook Series), Chicago, Ill.: Liturgy Training Publications, →ISBN, page 141:

When we look at the grains of sand – countless in number – they speak to us of the multitude of God's lovingkindnesses to us.

2012, James Hastings, “Seaside Lodgings”, in The Book of Acts: Children’s Great Bible Texts, [s.l.]: Jazzybee Verlag, →ISBN:

After you have spent your second week of meditation on developing mindfulness, your third week of meditation will involve developing lovingkindness. Lovingkindness Meditation, which is the third core practice, focuses bringing love, compassion, sympathy, and joy into your life.

2014, Michael J. Cavallaro, “Finishing Core Meditation with Lovingkindness”, in Ten Minutes to Deep Meditation: Techniques that Reduce Stress and Relieve Anger, Anxiety & Depression, Ocala, Fla.: Atlantic Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 161:

(uncountable) Kindness or mercy which is based on, or arises from, love; (countable) an act of such kindness or mercy.


Manichaeism

From Latin Manichaeus + -ism, from Classical Syriac ܡܐܢܝ ܚܝܐ (Mānī ḥayyā, “Living Mani”), from the name of its founder, Mani, from Middle Persian Mānī, Classical Syriac ܡܐܢܝ (Mānī) (Modern Persian مانی (mâni)) + Classical Syriac ܚܝܐ (ḥayyā, “living, alive”).

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In Manichaeism, as Benny Goodman used to sing, it's “Gotta Be This or That.” One thing or the other will triumph, in this dualistic view, and the winner is supposed to be determined in an apocalyptic struggle involving a world conflagration.

1988 June 12, William Safire, “No Shades of Gray”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(philosophy) A dualistic philosophy dividing the world between good and evil principles, or regarding matter as intrinsically evil and mind as intrinsically good.


transduction

en-noun

transduction (countable and uncountable, plural transductions)

1650s, Latin transductionem, form of Latin trānsdūcō (“lead across”). By surface analysis, transduce + -tion.

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(logic) Particularly in the discipline of artificial intelligence, a form of inference, according to which the response appropriate to a particular known case, also is appropriate to another particular case diagnosed to be functionally identical. This contrasts with induction, in which general rules derived from past observations are applied to future cases as a class (compare also analogy).


amorous

en-adj

amorous (comparative more amorous, superlative most amorous)

more amorous (comparative)
most amorous (superlative)

From Middle English amorous, amerous (14th century), from Old French amoros, amoreus, from Vulgar Latin *amōrōsus, from Latin amor (“love”), related to amāre (“to love”). Compare French amoureux (“in love”). Doublet of amoroso and amoureux.

He had been amorous of her since schooldays.

(dated) Affected with love; in love; enamored.


amorous

English: amorous

Scots: amorous

Borrowed from Old French amoros, from Vulgar Latin *amōrōsus; equivalent to amour + -ous.

Amorous, enamoured; in love or lovestruck.


qi

en-noun

qi (countable and uncountable, plural qis)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 氣／气 (qì).

And so he trained his qi, his breath, and his sense of timing, so that strength and size became irrelevant to his understanding of Aikido.

2003, Mallory Fromm, Qi Energy for Health and Healing: A Practical Guide to the Healing Principles of Life Energy:


euhemerize

en-verb

euhemerize (third-person singular simple present euhemerizes, present participle euhemerizing, simple past and past participle euhemerized)

euhemerizes (present singular third-person)
euhemerizing (participle present)
euhemerized (participle past)
euhemerized (past)

From euhemerism + -ize, ultimately from Latin Euhēmerus, from Ancient Greek Εὐήμερος (Euḗmeros), an ancient Greek Sicilian Skeptic who proposed most or all mythology derived from historical figures and natural events which received supernatural characteristics only through retelling.

The Yellow Emperor was perhaps euhemerized from a prehistoric tribal leader.

(transitive, intransitive) Synonym of deify: to actually create mythology and legends from ancient historical figures and events.

évhémériser

to explain or interpret something through euhemerism


négationniste

fr-noun

négationniste m or f by sense (plural négationnistes)

(politics, philosophy) denialist, denier, negationist


falso

pt-adj

falso (feminine falsa, masculine plural falsos, feminine plural falsas)

falsa (feminine)
falsos (masculine plural)
falsas (feminine plural)

desctree

→ Malay: palsu
Indonesian: palsu
Peranakan Indonesian: palsoe

From Old Galician-Portuguese falso, from Latin falsus (“deceived”), from fallō (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰwel- (“to lie, deceive”).


fortuna

la-noun

fortūna f (genitive fortūnae); first declension

fortūna (canonical feminine)
fortūnae (genitive)
fortūna (nominative singular)
fortūnae (nominative plural)
fortūnae (genitive singular)
fortūnārum (genitive plural)
fortūnae (dative singular)
fortūnīs (dative plural)
fortūnam (accusative singular)
fortūnās (accusative plural)
fortūnā (ablative singular)
fortūnīs (ablative plural)
fortūna (singular vocative)
fortūnae (plural vocative)

Aromanian: furtunã

Italian: fortuna

→ Byzantine Greek: φορτούνα (phortoúna)

Greek: φουρτούνα (fourtoúna)

Piedmontese: fortun-a

Romanian: furtună

Sicilian: furtuna

→ Albanian: furtunë

→ Catalan: fortuna

→ Occitan: fortuna

→ Old French: fortune

desctree

Middle French: fortune
→ Dutch: fortuin
French: fortune

→ Middle English: fortune
English: fortune
→ Welsh: ffortiwn
Scots: fortuin

→ Middle Irish: fortún

Irish: fortún

Scottish Gaelic: fortan

→ Polish: fortuna

→ Portuguese: fortuna

→ Romansch: fortuna

→ Russian: фортуна (fortuna)

→ Spanish: fortuna

From Proto-Italic *fortūnā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥-tew-n-éh₂. Substantivized feminine form of an unattested adjective *fortūnus, from the -tus-derivation *fortus to ferō, + -nus. Ultimately from *bʰer- (“bear, carry”).
For the meaning development compare with Russian везе́ние (vezénije, “luck, good luck”) related to везти́ (veztí, “to convey, to carry (by vehicle), to deliver, to transport”); furthermore cf. Ancient Greek ἡ συμφορά ("fortune, good luck, bad luck") and συμ-φέρω ("bear together; happen").


thought experiment

en-noun

thought experiment (plural thought experiments)

(physics, philosophy) An attempt to solve a problem using the power of human imagination.

思想實驗

attempt to solve a problem using human imagination


Marianne

(France, politics, philosophy) Marianne; a personification of France


induce

en-verb

induce (third-person singular simple present induces, present participle inducing, simple past and past participle induced)

induces (present singular third-person)
inducing (participle present)
induced (participle past)
induced (past)

From Middle English enducen, borrowed from Latin indūcere, present active infinitive of indūcō (“lead in, bring in, introduce”), from in + dūcō (“lead, conduct”). Compare also abduce, adduce, conduce, deduce, produce, reduce etc. Doublet of endue.

(transitive, logic) To infer by induction.


induce

ro-verb

a induce (third-person singular present induce, past participle indus) 3rd conj.

a induce (canonical)
induce (present singular third-person)
indus (participle past)
a induce (infinitive)
inducând (gerund)
indus (participle past)
induc (first-person indicative present singular)
induci (indicative present second-person singular)
induce (indicative present singular third-person)
inducem (first-person indicative plural present)
induceți (indicative plural present second-person)
induc (indicative plural present third-person)
induceam (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
induceai (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
inducea (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
induceam (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
induceați (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
induceau (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
indusei (first-person indicative perfect singular)
induseși (indicative perfect second-person singular)
induse (indicative perfect singular third-person)
induserăm (first-person indicative perfect plural)
induserăți (indicative perfect plural second-person)
induseră (indicative perfect plural third-person)
indusesem (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
induseseși (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
indusese (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
induseserăm (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
induseserăți (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
induseseră (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
să induc (first-person present singular subjunctive)
să induci (present second-person singular subjunctive)
să inducă (present singular subjunctive third-person)
să inducem (first-person plural present subjunctive)
să induceți (plural present second-person subjunctive)
să inducă (plural present subjunctive third-person)
indu (imperative second-person singular)
induceți (imperative plural second-person)
nu induce (imperative negative second-person singular)
nu induceți (imperative negative plural second-person)

Borrowed from Latin indūcere, present active infinitive of indūcō, with senses based off French induire. First attested in 1875.


convertible

en-adj

convertible (comparative more convertible, superlative most convertible)

more convertible (comparative)
most convertible (superlative)

From Old French convertible, from Late Latin convertibilis (“interchangeable”), from Latin convertere (“to turn back, to turn over, to turn around, to turn upside down”), from con- (“with, together”) + vertere (“to turn”), + -ibilis (“-ible: able to”). Equivalent to convert + -ible.

der

(logic) Able to undergo conversion (i.e., inversion) without falsehood.


dating

en-noun

dating (countable and uncountable, plural datings)

Janet was surprised at how much casual dating had changed since she was last single.

We met on a popular dating app.

A form of romantic courtship typically between two individuals with the aim of assessing the other's suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or as a spouse.


Neoplatonism

A school of philosophy based on the teachings of Plato and, subsequently, Plotinus; it was the foundation for paganism.


elemento

(philosophy) element (one of four building block of matter)


metacognition

metacognition (countable and uncountable, plural metacognitions)

(philosophy) the act of thinking about thinking.


Plato

Via Latin Plato, from Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn), from πλατύς (platús, “broad, wide”), either because of Plato's robust body, or wide forehead or the breadth of his eloquence.

My name is Plato Jones. Plato Constantine Jones. Plato because my mother is Greek, and Jones because my father is Welsh, and Constantine after his father, my grandfather, who is Constantine Llewellyn Jones.

1993, Nina Bawden, The Real Plato Jones, Houghton Miffin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 1:

The Greek philosopher, 427–347 BC, follower of Socrates.


Plato

la-proper noun

Platō m sg (genitive Platōnis); third declension

Platō (canonical masculine singular)
Platōnis (genitive)
Platō (nominative singular)
Platōnis (genitive singular)
Platōnī (dative singular)
Platōnem (accusative singular)
Platōne (ablative singular)
Platō (singular vocative)

English: Plato

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn).

Lēctitāvisse Platōnem studiōsē.


intel

Intel is important in espionage.

We have reason to believe one of our people is giving intel to the enemy. Hit an enemy communication center and get us a name.

2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Identify the Spy:

Aaaaaand that’s pretty much everything we know about Zazie and David’s ‘ship, but definitely check back here for any and all intel on the couple. ❤

2024 October 30, Gretty Garcia, “Zazie Beetz and David Rysdahl’s Relationship Timeline All in One Place”, in Cosmopolitan:

(especially espionage and military) Intelligence (secret information).


sub specie aeterni

(philosophy, literary) From the viewpoint of eternity.


Japanophilia

/d͡ʒəˌpænəˈfɪli.ə/

A strong interest in the country, culture, or people of Japan.


hodology

(philosophy) The study of interconnected ideas.


resurrect

en-verb

resurrect (third-person singular simple present resurrects, present participle resurrecting, simple past and past participle resurrected)

resurrects (present singular third-person)
resurrecting (participle present)
resurrected (participle past)
resurrected (past)

(intransitive) To rise from the dead; to return to life.


memetics

(philosophy) The study of memes and their social and cultural effects.


Freund

de-noun

Freund m (strong, genitive Freundes or Freunds, plural Freunde, diminutive Freundchen n or Freundlein n, feminine Freundin)

Freundes (genitive)
Freunds (genitive)
Freunde (plural)
Freundchen (diminutive neuter)
Freundlein (diminutive neuter)
Freundin (feminine)
Freund (nominative singular)
Freunde (definite nominative plural)
Freundes (genitive singular)
Freunds (genitive singular)
Freunde (definite genitive plural)
Freund (dative singular)
Freunde (dative singular)
Freunden (dative definite plural)
Freund (accusative singular)
Freunde (accusative definite plural)

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Inherited from Middle High German vriunt, from Old High German friunt, from Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz (“lit., the loving one; lover, loved one, friend”), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *preyH-.
Cognate with Dutch vriend, German Low German Fründ, Luxembourgish Frënd, West Frisian freon, English friend, Danish frænde (“relative”), Faroese frændi (“friend, relative”), Icelandic frændi (“relative”), Norwegian Bokmål frende (“relative”), Norwegian Nynorsk frende (“relative”), Swedish frände (“relative”), Welsh ffrind (“friend”), Yiddish פֿרײַנד (fraynd, “friend”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌾𐍉𐌽𐌳𐍃 (frijōnds, “friend”), Old English frēond (“friend, lover”), Old Norse frændi (“friend, relative”).

inh

(obsolete) blood relative (in the sense of a person that is or should be one’s friend by nature)


nihilist

(philosophy, religion) A person who accepts or champions nihilism.


stronger

From Middle English strongere, strengere (“stronger”), from Old English strongra, strengra (“stronger”), from Proto-Germanic *strangizô (“*stronger”), comparative of Proto-Germanic *strangaz (“strong”), equivalent to strong + -er. More at strong.

(logic) Said of one proposition with respect to another one: that the former entails the latter, but the latter does not entail the former.


名詞

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (名詞):
* → Japanese: 名(めい)詞(し) (meishi)
* → Korean: 명사(名詞) (myeongsa)
* → Vietnamese: danh từ (名詞)

/miŋ³⁵ t͡sʰz̩³⁵/

/mɪŋ²¹ t͡sʰiː²¹/

/mi̯aŋ¹¹ t͡sʰɨ¹¹/

/biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² sɯ²⁴/

/miã²⁴⁻¹¹ su²⁴/

/miã²³⁻³³ su²³/

/biɪŋ²³⁻³³ su²³/

/biɪŋ¹³⁻²² su¹³/

/biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² su²⁴/

/biɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ su²⁴/

/meŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ sɯ⁵⁵/

/miŋ³⁵ t͡sʰz̩³⁵/

/mɪŋ²¹ t͡sʰiː²¹/

/mi̯aŋ¹¹ t͡sʰɨ¹¹/

/biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² sɯ²⁴/

/miã²⁴⁻¹¹ su²⁴/

/miã²³⁻³³ su²³/

/biɪŋ²³⁻³³ su²³/

/biɪŋ¹³⁻²² su¹³/

/biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² su²⁴/

/biɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ su²⁴/

/meŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ sɯ⁵⁵/


QPR

Queens Park Rangers
w:Queens Park Rangers F.C.

(soccer) Initialism of Queens Park Rangers: a British football club based in London.


deduction

en-noun

deduction (countable and uncountable, plural deductions)

From Middle French déduction, from Latin deductio.
Equivalent to deduct + -ion or deduce + -tion.

He arrived at the deduction that the butler didn't do it.

An unkinder deduction, considering only the Select Committee's report and discounting rumours of wayward conclusions by the Stedeford Group, would be that if one inquisition doesn't produce the desired answers, the Minister's policy is "try, try again"—or should one say "fight, fight, fight again".

1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Marples out of step”, in Trains Illustrated, page 1:

(logic) A process of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific, in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true.

A conclusion; that which is deduced, concluded or figured out

Through his powers of deduction, he realized that the plan would never work.

The ability or skill to deduce or figure out; the power of reason


loving

loving (usually uncountable, plural lovings)

Inherited from Middle English lovynge, lovyng (“love”), from Old English lufung; equivalent to love + -ing.

all natural lovings and longings

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 132, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:


loving

en-adj

loving (comparative lovinger or more loving, superlative lovingest or most loving)

lovinger (comparative)
more loving (comparative)
lovingest (superlative)
most loving (superlative)

his loving wife

Expressing a large amount of love to other people; affectionate.


EA

en-noun

EA (countable and uncountable, plural EAs)

[…] Christine Emba’s Sept. 6 op-ed, “The trouble with ‘longtermism,’ ” countered this philosophy’s occasional fanaticism with glib reductiveness. Moreover, she tarred with the same brush the spirit of the entire effective altruism (EA) movement — the giveaway at the start is that EA is derided for being “obsessed with ‘doing good better.’ ”

2022 September 9, Theodore Leinwand, “Neartermism and longtermism aren’t at odds”, in The Washington Post:

This is the language of effective altruism — or E.A. — a philanthropic movement premised on the use of reason and data to do good. Bankman-Fried had long flaunted his E.A. bona fides to distinguish himself from other crypto billionaires.

2022 December 9, Jennifer Szalai, “Effective Altruism Warned of Risks. Did It Also Incentivize Them?”, in The New York Times:

effective altruism
effective altruism#English

(philosophy) Initialism of effective altruism.

effective altruist
effective altruist#English

(philosophy) Initialism of effective altruist.


kleptophilia

A paraphilia in which a person is sexually aroused by stealing.


bodice ripper

/ˈbɒdɪs ˌɹɪpə/

/ˈbɑdɪs ˌɹɪpɚ/

From the fact that the female protagonists in such novels would often have their bodices (blouses or corsets) removed with some force before sexual activity commenced.

My aunt would bring a stack of torrid bodice rippers with her to the beach, and would unfailingly blush if disturbed in her reading.

Publishers call them hot historicals as opposed to either the virginal variety Barbara Cartland writes or to the bodice rippers "because that's usually what happens to the heroines," Price explained.

1978 February 8, Charitey Simmons, “Dizzying passion ruffles the pages of the ‘hot’ historical novel”, in Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill.: Tribune Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, section 2, page 4:

The name "bodice ripper" was derived from the frequent rapes and sexual assaults that the heroines experienced. "Bodice-ripper" heroines were portrayed to be stronger and more active characters than gothic heroines. Editors of category romances, noting the popularity of the "bodice rippers," have borrowed the longer lengths, the overt sexuality and the assertive heroine from these romances.

1984, Margaret Ann Jensen, “Rivals and Writers”, in Love’s $weet Return: The Harlequin Story, Bowling Green, Oh.: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, →ISBN, page 66:

Soon bodice-rippers, the gothics, the "romance" novel advanced from paperback to hardback, from supermarket racks to book club selections.

1993, William O’Rourke, “Catholics Coming of Age”, in Signs of the Literary Times: Essays, Reviews, Profiles 1970–1992, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 48:

This book is the last stage of a long and varied journey that began with the first UK screening of The Piano. Never having been an ardent fan of conventional ‘bodice rippers’ or nostalgic fossilisations of a past we never had, I was surprised by my reaction to the costumes.

1997, Stella Bruzzi, “Introduction: Clothing and Cinema”, in Undressing Cinema: Clothing and Identity in the Movies, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2009, →ISBN, page xiii:

Indeed, Travis had been a model as a college student, working his way through John Jay Criminal College, posing for the bodice-ripper covers of romantic novels.

1999 January, Joanna Elm, chapter 17, in Delusion (A Tor Book), mass market edition, New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 136:

These novels became known as "bodice rippers" because they were much more sexually explicit than earlier romances had been. Instead of experiencing a delicious kiss or a mystical wedding night at the end of the story, heroines in the bodice rippers were regularly ravished by the hero. Some feminist critics objected to these books as a romanticization of rape, but readers identified strongly with the heroine's powerlessness as a woman in a rigidly patriarchal society. Unlike the sweet virgins of earlier romances, the heroines of the bodice rippers were notoriously feisty.

1999, Paulette Richards, “Literary Contexts”, in Kathleen Gregory Klein, editor, Terry McMillan: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 23:

Grazia [Deledda] discovered early that a short story appeared in the last pages of each magazine; these tales were of a decidedly Romantic bent, much like today's supermarket bodice-rippers.

2006, Jan Kozma, “Translator’s Introduction”, in Marianna Sirca, translated by Jan Kozma, Grazia Deledda, Madison, Teaneck, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, →ISBN, page 9:

[M]y mother chased her dream of becoming a character in one of those frontier romance novels—buckskin bodice rippers, she called them—that she so adored.

2015, Seamus McGraw, “Sundance”, in Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change, Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 5:

They stubbornly hung on to the idea that Outlander was a Harlequinesque bodiceripper that would only appeal to middle-age bored housewives.

2016 February 26, Beth Wesson, “Selling Outlander to the Masses … Or Selling Out?”, in My Outlander Blog, archived from the original on 2018-03-05:

(informal) A romantic novel, usually in a historical setting, with frank depictions of sexual activity, especially one in which the female protagonist is seduced; (by extension) a film, television programme, etc., featuring such activity.

racconto erotico

sexually explicit romantic novel, usually in a historical setting


cherry-pick

en-verb

cherry-pick (third-person singular simple present cherry-picks, present participle cherry-picking, simple past and past participle cherry-picked)

cherry-picks (present singular third-person)
cherry-picking (participle present)
cherry-picked (participle past)
cherry-picked (past)

A metaphor, from the idea of picking through a bowl of cherries and seeking the best for oneself, or the idea of picking off the cherries for oneself from a cake or dessert.

From all the available statistics, the politician cherry-picked only those that backed up his ideas.

The reason for this concentration is to attempt to alleviate the problems of fragmentation which usually accompany the study of retailing, particularly at the end of the early period, and has so often happened in the past, to curtail the temptation to 'cherry-pick' the best evidence from a wide, but not necessarily related, area.

1999, Nicholas Alexander, Gary Akehurst, The Emergence of Modern Retailing, 1750-1950, page 38:

2001, Ian St. John in sci.environment
You are *asking* for a specific *subset* of the data to *prove* a specific theory. That is 'cherry picking'. It is no more valid to 'cherry pick' data to disprove global warming than it is to 'cherry pick' data to prove it. That is *science*. You *must* deal with the entire data set. What part of this is not clear?

Yes, I do think in principle it is a good idea to have clearing houses where data is assessed and has as objective an account as possible given of the data because of the tendency of all organisations to cherry-pick those studies which may support a pre-existing position.

2006, Scientific developments relating to the Abortion Act 1967: twelfth report of session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral and written evidence, page 32:

So it's possible to 'cherry pick' only the evidence that supports a position and ignore the rest. To the reader who does not know about the rest of the evidence, it may seem like a strong case. The whole body of evidence must be considered.

2008, Warren Davies, How to Study Psychology, page 80:

(rhetoric, logic, by extension) To select only evidence which supports an argument, and reject or ignore contradictory evidence.

de krenten uit de pap halen

to select only the best from a range of options


fini

fr-adj

fini (feminine finie, masculine plural finis, feminine plural finies)

finie (feminine)
finis (masculine plural)
finies (feminine plural)

(technical, philosophy) limited, finite (which has an end)


अनुराग

anurāga (romanization)
अनुरागः (nominative singular)
अनुरागौ (dual nominative)
अनुरागाः (nominative plural)
अनुराग (singular vocative)
अनुरागौ (dual vocative)
अनुरागाः (plural vocative)
अनुरागम् (accusative singular)
अनुरागौ (accusative dual)
अनुरागान् (accusative plural)
अनुरागेण (instrumental singular)
अनुरागाभ्याम् (dual instrumental)
अनुरागैः (instrumental plural)
अनुरागाय (dative singular)
अनुरागाभ्याम् (dative dual)
अनुरागेभ्यः (dative plural)
अनुरागात् (ablative singular)
अनुरागाभ्याम् (ablative dual)
अनुरागेभ्यः (ablative plural)
अनुरागस्य (genitive singular)
अनुरागयोः (dual genitive)
अनुरागाणाम् (genitive plural)
अनुरागे (locative singular)
अनुरागयोः (dual locative)
अनुरागेषु (locative plural)

sa-decl-noun

Masculine a-stem declension of अनुराग

अनुरागाभ्याम्

अनुरागाभ्याम्

अनुरागाभ्याम्

sa-decl-noun/cell

अनुरागाभ्याम्

अनुरागाभ्याम्

अनुरागाभ्याम्


charity

en-noun

charity (countable and uncountable, plural charities)

From Middle English charite, from Old French charité, cherte, chariteit, cariteit, from Latin cāritās.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 13:4-5:

(archaic, Christianity) Christian love; representing God's love of man, man's love of God, or man's love of his fellow-men.


Foucault

(philosophy) the French philosopher Michel Foucault


tête-à-tête

Unadapted borrowing from French tête-à-tête.

ubor

(literary) tête-à-tête (in private, between two people; head-to-head)


Aristotelian

Having noted that, it should be kept in mind that such scholars (i.e. those who reject that Cusanus is trivialist) should not cite as evidence for denying he was a trivialist the fact that Cusanus was an advocate of Aristotelian logic and the Law of Non-Contradiction. This is because an advocacy of both Aristotelian logic and the law of Non-Contradiction are quite compatible with being a trivialist – the trivialist accepts the truth of all propositions, including the Law of Non-Contradiction and other laws of Aristotelian logic.

2008, Paul Kabay, A Defense of Trivialism, page 36:

Of or pertaining to Aristotle, or his philosophy, logic, or followers.

aristotèlic

of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle


presence

en-verb

presence (third-person singular simple present presences, present participle presencing, simple past and past participle presenced)

presences (present singular third-person)
presencing (participle present)
presenced (participle past)
presenced (past)

Through Old French presence, from Latin praesentia (“a being present”), from praesentem. Displaced native Old English andweardnes.

Presence means: the constant abiding that approaches man, reaches him, is extended to him. But what is this source of this extending reach to which the present belongs as presencing, insofar as there is presence? True, man always remains approached by the presencing of something actually present without explicitly heeding presencing itself.

1972, Joan Stambaugh, Time and being (lecture), translation of original by Martin Heidegger, page 13:

Within a completely neutral horizon, the primordial continuous stream of experience is presenced without interruption. As this time, the past and future have no meaning apart from the now in which they are presenced.

1985, David Edward Shaner, The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Study of Kūkai and Dōgen, page 59:

Just as the bread and butter can be presenced as more than just the bread and the butter, so baking a loaf of bread can be more than just the baking, the baker, and the bread.

1998, H. Peter Steeves, Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry, page 59:

2005, James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry, Stanford University Press, →ISBN (paperback), page 118,
From the overtaxing of the regime's paranoiac classifications and monitoring of the social field, Heidegger was to await in vain the presencing of that which is present, the revelation of the Being of beings in its precedence to governmental control.

Benner (1984) captures the essence of this when she describes presencing as the art of 'being with' a person without the need to be 'doing to' the person.

2011, Brendan McCormack, Tanya McCance, Person-centred Nursing: Theory and Practice:

(philosophy, transitive, intransitive) To make or become present.


espionage

en-noun

espionage (countable and uncountable, plural espionages)

Recorded since 1793, from French espionnage, from espionner (“to spy”), from Middle French espionner (“to spy”), from espion (“spy”), from Old French espion (“spy”), from Frankish *spehō (“spy”), from Frankish *spehōn (“to spy”), from Proto-Germanic *spehōną (“to spy, peek, peer”). In modern times, the French pronunciation of the s, which had fallen silent since the 13th century, was restored due to the influence of Italian spione (“spy”), and was therefore also adopted by the English. More at spy.

der

So intolerable did Heavy Benson's espionage become, that Raynham would have grown depopulated of its womankind had not Adrian interfered, who pointed out to the Baronet what a fearful arm his butler was wielding.

1859, George Meredith, chapter 16, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:

What a freak show! I mean, how often do you meet a wrestling librarian?
Yeah, about as often as you meet a high schoolgirl involved in international espionage… Okay, bad example.

2003 June 20, Joseph Purdy, “Totally Switched”, in Totally Spies!, season 2, episode 19, spoken by Alexandra “Alex” (Andrea Taylor as Clover and Katie Leigh), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:

The act or process of learning secret information through clandestine means.

spioenasie

act of learning secret information through clandestine means


scandal

en-noun

scandal (countable and uncountable, plural scandals)

→ Japanese: スキャンダル (sukyandaru)

→ Korean: 스캔들 (seukaendeul)

→ Malay: skandal

From Middle French scandale (“indignation caused by misconduct or defamatory speech”), from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“that on which one trips, cause of offense”, literally “stumbling block”), from Ancient Greek σκάνδαλον (skándalon, “a trap laid for an enemy, a cause of moral stumbling”), from Proto-Indo-European *skand- (“to jump”). Cognate with Latin scandō (“to climb”). First attested from Old Northern French escandle, but the modern word is a reborrowing. Doublet, via Old French esclandre, of slander.
Sense evolution from "cause of stumbling, that which causes one to sin, stumbling block" to "discredit to reputation, that which brings shame, thing of disgrace" is possibly due to early influence from other similar sounding words for infamy and disgrace (compare Old English scand (“ignominity, scandal, disgraceful thing”), Old High German scanda (“ignominy, disgrace”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰 (skanda, “shame, disgrace”)). See shand, shend, shonda.

cog

(theology) A word or deed, lacking in rectitude in some manner, which is an occasion of the spiritual ruin of another.


conclude

en-verb

conclude (third-person singular simple present concludes, present participle concluding, simple past and past participle concluded)

concludes (present singular third-person)
concluding (participle present)
concluded (participle past)
concluded (past)

From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin conclūdere (“to shut up, close, end”), present active infinitive of conclūdō.

der

(logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)


falsifiable

en-adj

falsifiable (comparative more falsifiable, superlative most falsifiable)

more falsifiable (comparative)
most falsifiable (superlative)

The statement It rains every day, everywhere is falsifiable, because it is contradicted by the basic statement On the third of August, in New York city it was not raining and it is not contradicted by the basic statement On the second of August, in New York city it was raining, while the statement It will rain someday is not falsifiable.

singular existential statement
singular existential statement#English

(epistemology) The demarcation criterion between scientific and non-scientific statements proposed by Karl Popper. In order to be ranked as scientific, statements or systems of statements must be contradicted by an intersubjective singular existential statement, also called a basic statement, and not be contradicted by another, that is, they must also be logically possible.


saving

saving (comparative more saving, superlative most saving)

more saving (comparative)
most saving (superlative)

(theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.


ninjutsu

Unadapted borrowing from English ninjutsu.

ubor

Coordinate term: ninja

(espionage, historical, martial arts) ninjutsu (Japanese martial art that is a collection of techniques originally practiced for Japanese espionage purposes, and includes methods of gathering information, nondetection, avoidance, and misdirection techniques)


honeypot

From Middle English hwny pott; equivalent to honey + pot.

And the American Embassy in Moscow was infiltrated thanks to “honeypots,” Soviet women who seduced Marine guards.

1989, The Washingtonian, volume 24, page 25:

Perhaps in order to create his own, more controlled environment for debaucherie, he set up a house of prostitution with Gestapo funds, justifying it as a "honeypot" with which to ensnare unsuspecting foreign diplomats.

1996, John H. Waller, The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War, Random House, →ISBN, page 226:

The NKVD uses attractive ballerinas for honeypot espionage.

2004, Richard C.S. Trahair, Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 353:

(figuratively) Something or someone similarly sweet or enticing, particularly:

(espionage) A spy (typically attractive and female) who uses sex to trap and blackmail a target.


pedophilic

en-adj

pedophilic (comparative more pedophilic, superlative most pedophilic)

more pedophilic (comparative)
most pedophilic (superlative)

In a consumerist hypersexualized environment where bare-midriffed fifteen-year-olds are the pedophilic standard of desirability, becoming older is coded as a set of deficiencies.

2011, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America, page 125:

Of, relating to, or pertaining to pedophilia.

pædofil

of, relating to, or pertaining to pedophilia


modernism

en-noun

modernism (countable and uncountable, plural modernisms)

Penrod is so referential as to be almost a work of postmodernism—assuming Tarkington could have imagined such a thing with modernism itself just beginning to steamroll over him.

2004 May, Thomas Mallon, “Hoosiers”, in The Atlantic:

Any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century.

modernismu

any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century


homoseksualista

pl-noun

homoseksualista m pers (female equivalent homoseksualistka)

homoseksualistka (feminine)
homoseksualista (nominative singular)
homoseksualiści (nominative plural)
homoseksualisty (derogatory nominative plural)
homoseksualisty (genitive singular)
homoseksualistów (genitive plural)
homoseksualiście (dative singular)
homoseksualistom (dative plural)
homoseksualistę (accusative singular)
homoseksualistów (accusative plural)
homoseksualistą (instrumental singular)
homoseksualistami (instrumental plural)
homoseksualiście (locative singular)
homoseksualistach (locative plural)
homoseksualisto (singular vocative)
homoseksualiści (plural vocative)


φιλία

grc-noun

φῐλῐ́ᾱ • (philíā) f (genitive φῐλῐ́ᾱς); first declension

φῐλῐ́ᾱ (canonical)
philíā (romanization)
φῐλῐ́ᾱς (genitive)
ἡ φῐλῐ́ᾱ (nominative singular)
τὼ φῐλῐ́ᾱ (dual nominative)
αἱ φῐλῐ́αι (nominative plural)
τῆς φῐλῐ́ᾱς (genitive singular)
τοῖν φῐλῐ́αιν (dual genitive)
τῶν φῐλῐῶν (genitive plural)
τῇ φῐλῐ́ᾳ (dative singular)
τοῖν φῐλῐ́αιν (dative dual)
ταῖς φῐλῐ́αις (dative plural)
τὴν φῐλῐ́ᾱν (accusative singular)
τὼ φῐλῐ́ᾱ (accusative dual)
τᾱ̀ς φῐλῐ́ᾱς (accusative plural)
φῐλῐ́ᾱ (singular vocative)
φῐλῐ́ᾱ (dual vocative)
φῐλῐ́αι (plural vocative)

English: -philia

Greek: φιλία (filía)

From φῐλέω (philéō, “to love”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Symposium 8.15, (Compare Plato, Symposium 179C, Phaedrus 237C, 255E)

436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 9B

Antidotus 130

385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 185C

430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hiero 3.7

384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 14.9

430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.6.3, (Compare Isocrates, Collected Works 352B)

6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 306, (Compare Andocides, Collected Works 27.10)

460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.130

430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.6.29

428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 253

430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.1.28

430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 3.2.8

428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 237C

445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 214D

436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 424A

6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 1102

438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 930

436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 302E

445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 114.2

436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 118B

460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.5, (Compare 6.34, 6.78)

428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 304E

430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.10

428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 823B

436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, 88 D

436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 100C

460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.91

6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 600.1102

430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.7.29

408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 138

460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.82

385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 182C


homoseksualny

pl-adj

homoseksualny (not comparable, derived adverb homoseksualnie)

homoseksualny (masculine nominative singular)
homoseksualna (feminine nominative singular)
homoseksualne (neuter nominative singular)
homoseksualni (nominative plural virile)
homoseksualne (nominative plural)
homoseksualnego (genitive masculine singular)
homoseksualnej (feminine genitive singular)
homoseksualnego (genitive neuter singular)
homoseksualnych (genitive plural)
homoseksualnych (genitive plural virile)
homoseksualnemu (dative masculine singular)
homoseksualnej (dative feminine singular)
homoseksualnemu (dative neuter singular)
homoseksualnym (dative plural)
homoseksualnym (dative plural virile)
homoseksualnego (accusative animate masculine singular)
homoseksualny (accusative inanimate masculine singular)
homoseksualną (accusative feminine singular)
homoseksualne (accusative neuter singular)
homoseksualnych (accusative plural virile)
homoseksualne (accusative plural)
homoseksualnym (instrumental masculine singular)
homoseksualną (feminine instrumental singular)
homoseksualnym (instrumental neuter singular)
homoseksualnymi (instrumental plural)
homoseksualnymi (instrumental plural virile)
homoseksualnym (locative masculine singular)
homoseksualnej (feminine locative singular)
homoseksualnym (locative neuter singular)
homoseksualnych (locative plural)
homoseksualnych (locative plural virile)

Internationalism; compare English homosexual, French homosexuel, German homosexuell. By surface analysis, homo- + seksualny.


homosexuell

de-adj

homosexuell (strong nominative masculine singular homosexueller, not comparable)

homosexueller (masculine nominative singular strong)
homosexuell (masculine predicative singular)
homosexuell (feminine predicative singular)
homosexuell (neuter predicative singular)
homosexuell (plural predicative)
homosexueller (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
homosexuelle (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
homosexuelles (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
homosexuelle (nominative plural strong without-article)
homosexuellen (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
homosexueller (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
homosexuellen (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
homosexueller (genitive plural strong without-article)
homosexuellem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
homosexueller (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
homosexuellem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
homosexuellen (dative plural strong without-article)
homosexuellen (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
homosexuelle (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
homosexuelles (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
homosexuelle (accusative plural strong without-article)
der homosexuelle (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die homosexuelle (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das homosexuelle (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die homosexuellen (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des homosexuellen (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der homosexuellen (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des homosexuellen (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der homosexuellen (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem homosexuellen (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der homosexuellen (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem homosexuellen (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den homosexuellen (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den homosexuellen (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die homosexuelle (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das homosexuelle (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die homosexuellen (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein homosexueller (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine homosexuelle (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein homosexuelles (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
homosexuellen (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine homosexuellen (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines homosexuellen (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer homosexuellen (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines homosexuellen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
homosexuellen (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner homosexuellen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem homosexuellen (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer homosexuellen (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem homosexuellen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
homosexuellen (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen homosexuellen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen homosexuellen (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine homosexuelle (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein homosexuelles (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
homosexuellen (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine homosexuellen (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)

many speakers, by analogy with the English loanword Sex

homo- + sexuell, replacing older homosexual.

Einer, ein Schauspieler mit einem Gesicht, als sei ihm alles eins, kehrte um, stellte sich nochmals vor den Stabsarzt hin und sagte laut, mit sorgfältiger Aussprache: „Ich möchte noch hinzufügen, daß ich homosexuell bin.“ Der Stabsarzt wich zurück, er war ganz rot. Stimmlos sagte er: „Solche Schweine können wir allerdings nicht brauchen.“

1918, Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan, Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, page 49:

One man, an actor with a face as if he couldn't care less, turned around, placed himself in front of the staff surgeon again and said, carefully articulated: "I want to add that I'm homosexual." The staff surgeon receded, completely reddened. Voicelessly he said: "That kind of scum, on the other hand, we don't need at all."


indirect

en-adj

indirect (comparative more indirect, superlative most indirect)

more indirect (comparative)
most indirect (superlative)

/ˌɪndɪˈɹɛkt/

/ˌɪndəˈɹɛkt/

From Middle French indirect, from Late Latin indirectus.

law of the excluded middle
law of the excluded middle

(mathematics, logic, of a proof) Employing argument by contradiction; making use the law of the excluded middle; arguing via the contrapositive.


homoszexuális

homoszexuálisok (plural)
homoszexuális (nominative singular)
homoszexuálisok (nominative plural)
homoszexuálist (accusative singular)
homoszexuálisokat (accusative plural)
homoszexuálisnak (dative singular)
homoszexuálisoknak (dative plural)
homoszexuálissal (instrumental singular)
homoszexuálisokkal (instrumental plural)
homoszexuálisért (causal-final singular)
homoszexuálisokért (causal-final plural)
homoszexuálissá (singular translative)
homoszexuálisokká (plural translative)
homoszexuálisig (singular terminative)
homoszexuálisokig (plural terminative)
homoszexuálisként (essive-formal singular)
homoszexuálisokként (essive-formal plural)
homoszexuálisban (inessive singular)
homoszexuálisokban (inessive plural)
homoszexuálison (singular superessive)
homoszexuálisokon (plural superessive)
homoszexuálisnál (adessive singular)
homoszexuálisoknál (adessive plural)
homoszexuálisba (illative singular)
homoszexuálisokba (illative plural)
homoszexuálisra (singular sublative)
homoszexuálisokra (plural sublative)
homoszexuálishoz (allative singular)
homoszexuálisokhoz (allative plural)
homoszexuálisból (elative singular)
homoszexuálisokból (elative plural)
homoszexuálisról (delative singular)
homoszexuálisokról (delative plural)
homoszexuálistól (ablative singular)
homoszexuálisoktól (ablative plural)
homoszexuálisé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
homoszexuálisoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
homoszexuáliséi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
homoszexuálisokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)


znak

pl-noun

znak m inan (diminutive znaczek, related adjective znakowy)

znaczek (diminutive)
znakowy (adjective)
znak (nominative singular)
znaki (nominative plural)
znaku (genitive singular)
znaków (genitive plural)
znakowi (dative singular)
znakom (dative plural)
znak (accusative singular)
znaki (accusative plural)
znakiem (instrumental singular)
znakami (instrumental plural)
znaku (locative singular)
znakach (locative plural)
znaku (singular vocative)
znaki (plural vocative)

(obsolete, philosophy) sign (trait, characteristic)


Occam's razor

Named after English Franciscan theologist William of Occam, an advocate of the law of parsimony, and the idea of a razor as a tool that trims or shaves.

named-after

(epistemology) The principle of preferring the simplest of competing theories.

when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras


cariño

→ Catalan: carinyo

→ Portuguese: carinho

Uncertain, but possibly via Aragonese cariño, from Latin carere.

Cariño, ya estoy en casa.


relativistic

en-adj

relativistic (comparative more relativistic, superlative most relativistic)

more relativistic (comparative)
most relativistic (superlative)

From relativist + -ic or relative + -istic.

(philosophy) Of or relating to relativism.


truth table

Each row of a truth table corresponds to a distinct interpretation. The columns on the left side assign truth values to the letters (of the truth table's given formula), and the column on the right side shows the truth value for the entire formula, which computably depends on the truth values of its letters.

(logic) A table showing all possible truth values for an expression, derived from the truth values of its components.


satisfactory

satisfactory (comparative more satisfactory, superlative most satisfactory)

more satisfactory (comparative)
most satisfactory (superlative)

Borrowed from Middle French satisfactoire, from Late Latin satisfactōrius, from Latin satisfactus, past participle of satisfaciō.

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

[…] therefore the ſuffering of any other nature could not bee ſo pertinent, nor kindly ſatisfactory.

1623, John Mayer, The English Catechisme Explained, 3rd edition, London: Aug. Mathewes, page 36:

(theology) Making atonement for a sin; expiatory.


falsificationism

(epistemology) A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted it is not a scientific claim.


ethical

ethical (comparative more ethical, superlative most ethical)

more ethical (comparative)
most ethical (superlative)

From ethic + -al, from Late Latin ethicus (“moral, ethical”), from Ancient Greek ἠθικός (ēthikós, “of or for morals, moral, expressing character”), from ἦθος (êthos, “character, moral nature”).

moral

often differentiated on the basis of a distinction between societally conventional and innately righteous

The philosopher Kant is particularly known for his ethical writings.

(philosophy, not comparable) Of or relating to the study of ethics.


constructivism

en-noun

constructivism (countable and uncountable, plural constructivisms)

There is no single theory of constructivism. In fact, there are many shades and varieties of constructivism spanning a range of perspectives. There is also no single individual who can be identified as the founder of constructivism. In fact, rather than tracing a linear development along one line of philosophical thought, constructivism seems to circumscribe a set of thinkers, theories and approaches that spring from a plethora of historical and cultural origins.

2000, Donald Kiraly, A Social Constructivist Approach to Translator Education, St. Jerome Publishing, p. 18

According to constructivism, all systems are artificial abstractions. They are not made by nature and presented to use to be discovered, but we construct them by our perceptual and mental capabilities with the domain of our experiences.

2001, George J. Klir, Facets of Systems Science:

(philosophy, psychology) A psychological epistemology which argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences.


fraudster

2016 Eric Andrew-Gee Why and how Ontarians change their names in the 21st century The Globe and Mail
With a few exceptions, all those changes were published in the Ontario Gazette, a little-read compendium of government business that comes out every week. The province requires this by law, as do most Canadian jurisdictions, nominally to thwart fraudsters and deadbeats.

CPS MerseyCheshire welcomes the jailing of Helen Dove who conned her friend into giving up her job for a dream post that never existed. Kimberley McDonnell lost around £50,000 because of the fraudster.

2020 January 29, “Woman jailed for conning her friend into giving up her job for a dream post that never existed”, in CPS Mersey-Cheshire, London: Crown Prosecution Service, retrieved 2020-01-30:

Northern has made it harder for fraudsters to cheat checks on barcode season tickets. The operator has made it impossible for people to screenshot tickets from within the Northern app and then share the tickets for others to use.

2023 February 22, “Network News: Northern thwarts barcode cheats”, in RAIL, number 977, page 25:

a person who practices fraud; a swindler.

pathological liar

not to be confused; differing neuropsychological mechanisms


protasis

From Late Latin protasis, from Ancient Greek πρότασις (prótasis), from προτείνω (proteínō, “put forward, tender, propose”), from πρό (pró) + τείνω (teínō, “stretch”).

In "I will be coming if this weather holds up", "if this weather holds up" is the protasis, and "I will be coming" is the apodosis.

2005 B. P. Bairan: An Introduction to Syllogistic Logic
Every conditional statement is made up of two component statements. The component statement that follows the "if" is called antecedent (or the "implicans" or — rarely — the "protasis"), and the component statement that follows the "then" is the "consequent"(or the "implicate" or — rarely — the "apodosis").

(logic, grammar) A clause that expresses a contingent element in a conditional sentence.


protasis

la-noun

protasis f (genitive protasis); third declension

protasis (genitive)
protasis (nominative singular)
protasēs (nominative plural)
protasis (genitive singular)
protasium (genitive plural)
protasī (dative singular)
protasibus (dative plural)
protasem (accusative singular)
protasēs (accusative plural)
protasīs (accusative plural)
protase (ablative singular)
protasibus (ablative plural)
protasis (singular vocative)
protasēs (plural vocative)

English: protasis

Italian: protasi

[ˈprɔt̪äs̠ɪs̠]

From the Ancient Greek πρότασις (prótasis).


equivalence

en-noun

equivalence (countable and uncountable, plural equivalences)

From French équivalence, from Medieval Latin aequivalentia.

(uncountable, logic) The relationship between two propositions that are either both true or both false.


Absolute

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Oxford University Press
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(philosophy) That which is totally unconditioned, unrestricted, pure, perfect, or complete; that which can be thought of without relation to others.


Agent

de-noun

Agent m (weak, genitive Agenten, plural Agenten, feminine Agentin)

Agenten (genitive)
Agenten (plural)
Agentin (feminine)
Agent (nominative singular)
Agenten (definite nominative plural)
Agenten (genitive singular)
Agenten (definite genitive plural)
Agenten (dative singular)
Agenten (dative definite plural)
Agenten (accusative singular)
Agenten (accusative definite plural)

agent (male or of unspecified gender) (intermediary for certain services, such as for artistic performances or public relations)


Axiom

Axiom n (strong, genitive Axioms, plural Axiome)

Axioms (genitive)
Axiome (plural)
Axiom (nominative singular)
Axiome (definite nominative plural)
Axioms (genitive singular)
Axiome (definite genitive plural)
Axiom (dative singular)
Axiomen (dative definite plural)
Axiom (accusative singular)
Axiome (accusative definite plural)

From Latin axiōma, Ancient Greek ἀξίωμα (axíōma)


Con

ZFC ⊨ Con(PA)

(mathematics, logic) consistency predicate


Böse

Böse m (weak, genitive Bösen, plural Bösen)

Bösen (genitive)
Bösen (plural)
Böse (nominative singular)
Bösen (definite nominative plural)
Bösen (genitive singular)
Bösen (definite genitive plural)
Bösen (dative singular)
Bösen (dative definite plural)
Bösen (accusative singular)
Bösen (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German bōse, from Old High German bōsi. Cognate with English boast.


Dasein

Dasein (nominative singular)
Daseinit (nominative plural)
Dasein (accusative nominative singular)
Daseinit (accusative nominative plural)
Daseinin (accusative genitive singular)
Daseinit (accusative genitive plural)
Daseinin (genitive singular)
Daseinien (genitive plural)
Daseinia (partitive singular)
Daseineja (partitive plural)
Daseinissa (inessive singular)
Daseineissa (inessive plural)
Daseinista (elative singular)
Daseineista (elative plural)
Daseiniin (illative singular)
Daseineihin (illative plural)
Daseinilla (adessive singular)
Daseineilla (adessive plural)
Daseinilta (ablative singular)
Daseineilta (ablative plural)
Daseinille (allative singular)
Daseineille (allative plural)
Daseinina (essive singular)
Daseineina (essive plural)
Daseiniksi (singular translative)
Daseineiksi (plural translative)
Daseinitta (abessive singular)
Daseineitta (abessive plural)
Daseinein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Daseinini (nominative singular)
Daseinini (nominative plural)
Daseinini (accusative nominative singular)
Daseinini (accusative nominative plural)
Daseinini (accusative genitive singular)
Daseinini (accusative genitive plural)
Daseinini (genitive singular)
Daseinieni (genitive plural)
Daseiniani (partitive singular)
Daseinejani (partitive plural)
Daseinissani (inessive singular)
Daseineissani (inessive plural)
Daseinistani (elative singular)
Daseineistani (elative plural)
Daseiniini (illative singular)
Daseineihini (illative plural)
Daseinillani (adessive singular)
Daseineillani (adessive plural)
Daseiniltani (ablative singular)
Daseineiltani (ablative plural)
Daseinilleni (allative singular)
Daseineilleni (allative plural)
Daseininani (essive singular)
Daseineinani (essive plural)
Daseinikseni (singular translative)
Daseineikseni (plural translative)
Daseinittani (abessive singular)
Daseineittani (abessive plural)
Daseineineni (comitative plural)
Daseinisi (nominative singular)
Daseinisi (nominative plural)
Daseinisi (accusative nominative singular)
Daseinisi (accusative nominative plural)
Daseinisi (accusative genitive singular)
Daseinisi (accusative genitive plural)
Daseinisi (genitive singular)
Daseiniesi (genitive plural)
Daseiniasi (partitive singular)
Daseinejasi (partitive plural)
Daseinissasi (inessive singular)
Daseineissasi (inessive plural)
Daseinistasi (elative singular)
Daseineistasi (elative plural)
Daseiniisi (illative singular)
Daseineihisi (illative plural)
Daseinillasi (adessive singular)
Daseineillasi (adessive plural)
Daseiniltasi (ablative singular)
Daseineiltasi (ablative plural)
Daseinillesi (allative singular)
Daseineillesi (allative plural)
Daseininasi (essive singular)
Daseineinasi (essive plural)
Daseiniksesi (singular translative)
Daseineiksesi (plural translative)
Daseinittasi (abessive singular)
Daseineittasi (abessive plural)
Daseineinesi (comitative plural)
Daseinimme (nominative singular)
Daseinimme (nominative plural)
Daseinimme (accusative nominative singular)
Daseinimme (accusative nominative plural)
Daseinimme (accusative genitive singular)
Daseinimme (accusative genitive plural)
Daseinimme (genitive singular)
Daseiniemme (genitive plural)
Daseiniamme (partitive singular)
Daseinejamme (partitive plural)
Daseinissamme (inessive singular)
Daseineissamme (inessive plural)
Daseinistamme (elative singular)
Daseineistamme (elative plural)
Daseiniimme (illative singular)
Daseineihimme (illative plural)
Daseinillamme (adessive singular)
Daseineillamme (adessive plural)
Daseiniltamme (ablative singular)
Daseineiltamme (ablative plural)
Daseinillemme (allative singular)
Daseineillemme (allative plural)
Daseininamme (essive singular)
Daseineinamme (essive plural)
Daseiniksemme (singular translative)
Daseineiksemme (plural translative)
Daseinittamme (abessive singular)
Daseineittamme (abessive plural)
Daseineinemme (comitative plural)
Daseininne (nominative singular)
Daseininne (nominative plural)
Daseininne (accusative nominative singular)
Daseininne (accusative nominative plural)
Daseininne (accusative genitive singular)
Daseininne (accusative genitive plural)
Daseininne (genitive singular)
Daseinienne (genitive plural)
Daseinianne (partitive singular)
Daseinejanne (partitive plural)
Daseinissanne (inessive singular)
Daseineissanne (inessive plural)
Daseinistanne (elative singular)
Daseineistanne (elative plural)
Daseiniinne (illative singular)
Daseineihinne (illative plural)
Daseinillanne (adessive singular)
Daseineillanne (adessive plural)
Daseiniltanne (ablative singular)
Daseineiltanne (ablative plural)
Daseinillenne (allative singular)
Daseineillenne (allative plural)
Daseininanne (essive singular)
Daseineinanne (essive plural)
Daseiniksenne (singular translative)
Daseineiksenne (plural translative)
Daseinittanne (abessive singular)
Daseineittanne (abessive plural)
Daseineinenne (comitative plural)
Daseininsa (nominative singular)
Daseininsa (nominative plural)
Daseininsa (accusative nominative singular)
Daseininsa (accusative nominative plural)
Daseininsa (accusative genitive singular)
Daseininsa (accusative genitive plural)
Daseininsa (genitive singular)
Daseiniensa (genitive plural)
Daseiniaan (partitive singular)
Daseiniansa (partitive singular)
Daseinejaan (partitive plural)
Daseinejansa (partitive plural)
Daseinissaan (inessive singular)
Daseinissansa (inessive singular)
Daseineissaan (inessive plural)
Daseineissansa (inessive plural)
Daseinistaan (elative singular)
Daseinistansa (elative singular)
Daseineistaan (elative plural)
Daseineistansa (elative plural)
Daseiniinsa (illative singular)
Daseineihinsa (illative plural)
Daseinillaan (adessive singular)
Daseinillansa (adessive singular)
Daseineillaan (adessive plural)
Daseineillansa (adessive plural)
Daseiniltaan (ablative singular)
Daseiniltansa (ablative singular)
Daseineiltaan (ablative plural)
Daseineiltansa (ablative plural)
Daseinilleen (allative singular)
Daseinillensa (allative singular)
Daseineilleen (allative plural)
Daseineillensa (allative plural)
Daseininaan (essive singular)
Daseininansa (essive singular)
Daseineinaan (essive plural)
Daseineinansa (essive plural)
Daseinikseen (singular translative)
Daseiniksensa (singular translative)
Daseineikseen (plural translative)
Daseineiksensa (plural translative)
Daseinittaan (abessive singular)
Daseinittansa (abessive singular)
Daseineittaan (abessive plural)
Daseineittansa (abessive plural)
Daseineineen (comitative plural)
Daseineinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈdɑ̝s̠ɑ̝i̯n]


Dasein

Dasein n (strong, genitive Daseins, plural Daseine)

Daseins (genitive)
Daseine (plural)
Dasein (nominative singular)
Daseine (definite nominative plural)
Daseins (genitive singular)
Daseine (definite genitive plural)
Dasein (dative singular)
Daseinen (dative definite plural)
Dasein (accusative singular)
Daseine (accusative definite plural)

1932, Carl von Ossietzky, Rückkehr, in: Die Weltbühne, volume 28, no. 52, Verlag der Weltbühne, page 925

Having been in prison, that is a great experience that no political man can eliminate from his existence.

Im Gefängnis gewesen sein, das ist ein großes Erlebnis, das kein politischer Mensch aus seinem Dasein streichen kann.


Enlightenment

1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 36 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
He first presented a complementary thesis on the Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), in which he used the term “archaeology” for the first time, and which indicated the period of history to which he was constantly to return.
The Enlightenment: the intellectual, philosophical, cultural and scientific spirit of the 18th century. A belief in reason, progress, man’s “maturity” and a general rejection of tradition, religion and authority.

Age of Enlightenment
Age of Enlightenment

A 17th- and 18th-century philosophical movement in European history; the Age of Enlightenment or Age of Reason emphasizing rationalism.


Gallophilia

The love or admiration for the country, culture, language, or people of France.


Hedonist

Hedonist m (weak, genitive Hedonisten, plural Hedonisten)

Hedonisten (genitive)
Hedonisten (plural)
Hedonist (nominative singular)
Hedonisten (definite nominative plural)
Hedonisten (genitive singular)
Hedonisten (definite genitive plural)
Hedonisten (dative singular)
Hedonisten (dative definite plural)
Hedonisten (accusative singular)
Hedonisten (accusative definite plural)


Cynic

First used in English around 1540–50. From Latin Cynicus (cynic philosopher), from Ancient Greek Κυνικός (Kunikós, from κύων (kúōn, “dog”, see Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ) + -ικός (-ikós), literally “doglike, currish”). The word may have first been applied to Cynics because of the nickname κύων (kúōn, “dog”) given to Diogenes of Sinope, the prototypical Cynic.

af

see Proto-Indo-European <i class="Latn mention" lang="ine-pro">*ḱwṓ</i>

der

A member of a sect of Ancient Greek philosophers who believed virtue to be the only good and self-control to be the only means of achieving virtue.


Homo

de-noun

Homo m (strong, genitive Homos, plural Homos)

Homos (genitive)
Homos (plural)
Homo (nominative singular)
Homos (definite nominative plural)
Homos (genitive singular)
Homos (definite genitive plural)
Homo (dative singular)
Homos (dative definite plural)
Homo (accusative singular)
Homos (accusative definite plural)


Eros

I'm not just talking about sexually transmitted diseases, though Eros-knows there's precious little information about them available to gay men.

1981 August 1, Ron Vachon, “To Your Health”, in Gay Community News, page 13:

(Greek mythology) The god of love and sexual desire; son of either Erebus and Nyx or Aphrodite and Ares. His Roman counterpart is Cupid.


Heaven

What Heaven has conferred is called the Nature...

1893, James Legge, transl., The Doctrine of the Mean:

...‘Heaven’ as we use it throughout the book is only a convenient but inaccurate translation of the Chinese character tian. Heaven in Chinese religions as well as in the Confucian tradition has multidimensional implications... In its metaphysical and physical connotation, Heaven... refers to... Nature. Applied in the spiritual realm, it signifies an anthropomorphic Lord or a Supreme Being who presides in Heaven, and rules over or governs directly the spiritual and material worlds.

2000, Yao Xinzhong, An Introduction to Confucianism, page 142:

It was not just the sky, but a god with wills and intentions, seen as sovereign of all... In fact, "Tian" was another reverent term to address the supreme god: "Heaven, for the help of the inferior people, made for them rulers, and made for them instructors" ("Great Declaration I" in the Book of History)...

2018, Zhuo Xinping, Religious Faith of the Chinese, page 58:

(Chinese mythology, semantic translation of 天 (tiān)) The supreme God or Nature which controls the universe.


Logik

Logik f (genitive Logik, plural Logiken)

Logik (genitive)
Logiken (plural)
Logik (nominative singular)
Logiken (definite nominative plural)
Logik (genitive singular)
Logiken (definite genitive plural)
Logik (dative singular)
Logiken (dative definite plural)
Logik (accusative singular)
Logiken (accusative definite plural)

Borrowed from Latin logica, from Ancient Greek λογική (logikḗ, “logic”).


Abbreviation of Military Intelligence, Section Six.

abbrev

Secret Intelligence Service
Secret Intelligence Service

The overseas intelligence agency of the United Kingdom, whose primary function is to spy on foreign governments and terror groups located abroad. Formally called the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS).


Abbreviation of Military Intelligence, Section Five.

The domestic intelligence and counter-espionage agency of the United Kingdom, which operates in secret and whose primary function is to spy on terrorist organizations and others viewed as a threat to British national security. Formally known as the Security Service.


Fall

(theology) The sudden fall of humanity into a state of sin, as brought about by the transgression of Adam and Eve.


Mem

de-noun

Mem n (strong, genitive Mems, plural Meme)

meme (in the sense of "unit of [cultural] information"; otherwise Meme)


Mill

Ste. Genevieve County
Ste. Genevieve County#English

An unincorporated community in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, United States.


Ion

(philosophy) Ion of Chios, a Greek writer, dramatist, lyric poet and philosopher of the Pythagorean school


Padre

Father (a title for a Latin Catholic priest and also God the Father)


Ratio

Ratio (genitive)
Ratio (nominative singular)
Ratio (genitive singular)
Ratio (dative singular)
Ratio (accusative singular)

16th century, from Latin ratio. Doublet of Räson, Ration, and Rede.

(philosophy, learned) reason (capacity of rational thinking)


Papa

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin pāpās, from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas).

bor+

the Pope (head of both the Catholic and Coptic Churches)


Panna

Panna (nominative singular)
Panny (genitive singular)
Pannie (dative singular)
Pannę (accusative singular)
Panną (instrumental singular)
Pannie (locative singular)
Panno (singular vocative)

(biblical, Christianity, theology) the Virgin, in particular Virgin Mary


Pascal

en-proper noun

Pascal (countable and uncountable, plural Pascals)

From Latin Paschālis, from paschālis (“Paschal; of or pertaining to Easter”), from pascha (“Easter”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives), for birth on Easter, or in honor of the 9th-century pope Paschal I (died 824). Doublet of Paschal. The programming language was named after French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623–1662).

(countable) A male given name from Latin used in medieval England; today occasionally borrowed from French.

(countable) A surname transferred from the given name.

The French mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623–1662).

programming language
programming language

(computer languages) An imperative procedural programming language intended to encourage good programming practices through the use of structure.


Sinophile

A person who loves the country, culture, or people of China.


Tales

Tales (nominative singular)
Talesa (genitive singular)
Talesowi (dative singular)
Talesa (accusative singular)
Talesem (instrumental singular)
Talesie (locative singular)
Talesie (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Θαλῆς (Thalês).


Te

From Coptic ⲧⲏ (tē), from Egyptian d-wA-t:dwAt (“dwꜣt”). Doublet of Duat.

der

<i class="Latn mention" lang="egy">dwꜣt</i>

(Egyptology, Egyptian mythology) The realm of the dead in Egyptian mythology.


Way

From specific instances of way. In Christian contexts, a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós) used with that meaning in the Acts of the Apostles (for example, Acts 9:2). In Chinese contexts, a semantic loan from Chinese 道 (Dào).

semantic loan

(Chinese philosophy, with the definite article) Synonym of Tao: the way of nature and/or the ideal way in which to live one's life.


Π

arithmetical hierarchy
arithmetical hierarchy

polynomial hierarchy
polynomial hierarchy

universal quantifier
universal quantifier

(mathematics, logic, computer science) A class (in some hierarchy of formulae, like the arithmetical hierarchy or polynomial hierarchy) of those formulae whose outermost quantifiers are universal quantifiers.


potenza

From Latin potentia. By surface analysis, potere + -enza.


je t'aime

Je t’aime à la folie


hellish

en-adj

hellish (comparative more hellish, superlative most hellish)

more hellish (comparative)
most hellish (superlative)

Fauſtus is gone, regard his helliſh fall, / Whoſe fiendful fortune may exhort the wiſe, / Onely to wonder at vnlawful things, […]

1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC, signature [F3], recto:

I woke up from a hellish noise coming from the house next door.

(hyperbolic) causing great pain, discomfort or distress


barbara

/ˈbɑɹb(ə)ɹə/

/ˈbɑːb(ə)ɹə/

From the name Barbara; chosen because it has three A's in it representing universal affirmatives.

(logic) A syllogism in which all three propositions are of the form "All X are Y" or "X is a Y".


marxism

marxism (indefinite nominative singular)


Pan

Pan (nominative singular)
Pana (genitive singular)
Panu (dative singular)
Pana (accusative singular)
Panem (instrumental singular)
Panie (locative singular)
Panie (singular vocative)

(biblical, Christianity, theology) Lord (Jesus)


platonic

platonic (comparative more platonic, superlative most platonic)

more platonic (comparative)
most platonic (superlative)

Variant of Platonic, which see. The sense “non-sexual” dates to the 17th century in English, and to the 15th century in Latin; see platonic love for details.

They are good friends, but their relationship is strictly platonic.

Neither sexual nor romantic in nature; being or exhibiting platonic love.


incomprehensible

incomprehensible (comparative more incomprehensible, superlative most incomprehensible)

more incomprehensible (comparative)
most incomprehensible (superlative)

From Middle French incomprehensible, from Latin incomprehensibilis. Equivalent to in- + comprehensible.

Prayer to God the Father: It is fitting and right to sing to You, to bless You, to praise You, to give thanks to You, to worship You in every place of your dominion: for You are God, beyond description, beyond understanding, invisible, incomprehensible, always existing, always the same; You and your only-begotten Son and your Holy Spirit

1969, “The Divine Liturgy of John Chrysostom: Liturgy of Offering”, in Joseph Raya, transl., edited by José de Vinck, Byzantine Daily Worship, Alleluia Press, page 282:

(theology or literary) Which cannot be contained; boundless, infinite.


pius

la-adj

pius (feminine pia, neuter pium, comparative magis pius, superlative piissimus, adverb piē); first/second-declension adjective

pia (feminine)
pium (neuter)
magis pius (comparative)
piissimus (superlative)
piē (adverb)
pius (masculine nominative singular)
pia (feminine nominative singular)
pium (neuter nominative singular)
piī (masculine nominative plural)
piae (feminine nominative plural)
pia (neuter nominative plural)
piī (genitive masculine singular)
piae (feminine genitive singular)
piī (genitive neuter singular)
piōrum (genitive masculine plural)
piārum (feminine genitive plural)
piōrum (genitive neuter plural)
piō (dative masculine singular)
piae (dative feminine singular)
piō (dative neuter singular)
piīs (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
pium (accusative masculine singular)
piam (accusative feminine singular)
pium (accusative neuter singular)
piōs (accusative masculine plural)
piās (accusative feminine plural)
pia (accusative neuter plural)
piō (ablative masculine singular)
piā (ablative feminine singular)
piō (ablative neuter singular)
piīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
pie (masculine singular vocative)
pia (feminine singular vocative)
pium (neuter singular vocative)
piī (masculine plural vocative)
piae (feminine plural vocative)
pia (neuter plural vocative)

Italian: pio

Old French: pius, piu

Middle French: pieux

French: pieux

→ Romanian: pios

Old Galician-Portuguese:

Galician: pío

Portuguese: pio

Sicilian: pìu

Spanish: pío

→ English: pious

From Proto-Italic *pwījos, from Proto-Indo-European *puHyós (“purifying”), from *pewH-.


wheel of Fortune

I hold the Fates bound faſt in yron chaines,
And with my hand turne Fortunes wheel about,
And ſooner ſhall the Sun fall from his Spheare,
Than Tamburlaine be ſlaine or ouercome.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

I was young enough not to part with hope too easily; — the vague idea I had that my turn would come, — that the ever-circling wheel of Fortune would perchance lift me up some day as it now crushed me down,[…]

1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, →OCLC, page 8:

(mythology, philosophy) The mythological wheel whose turns, which are random, determine men’s fortunes.


residency

en-noun

residency (countable and uncountable, plural residencies)


extropy

extropy (countable and uncountable, plural extropies)

First coined to serve as an antonym of entropy, substituting its en- element (representing the prepositional prefix ἐν (en), en, “in” in its Ancient Greek etymon ἐντροπία (entropía), entropia, “a turning towards”) with ex- (representing the Ancient Greek ἐξ (ex), ex, “out of”, “from”); because ἐξ (ex) takes the form ἐκ (ek) when prefixed to an element beginning with τ (t), the analogical spelling is ectropy (or, alternatively, ektropy), as if after the Ancient Greek *ἐκτροπία (ektropía, “a turning out of”).

Extropy uptake, extropy output and entropy production. [...] Jin is the incoming extropy flow, while Jout is the outgoing one. Extropy inflow / outflow is the extropy of the incoming / outgoing material[…]

1999, Wolfgang Hofkirchner, The Quest for a Unified Theory of Information: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 272:


уран

From Mongolic. Compare to Buryat [script needed] (uran).

уран үлэ

уран оҥоһук

уран тарбахтаах

уран тыллаах


dette

English: debt

Scots: det, debt

From Old French dete, from Latin dēbita, from the plural of dēbitum.

and þus ȝe ſchulen pꝛeie / Oure fadir þat art in heuenes .· halewid be þi name / þi kyngdom come to / be þi wille doon in erþe .· as in heuene / ȝyue to vs þis dai oure bꝛeed ouer oþir ſubſtaunce / and foꝛȝyue to vs oure dettis .· as we foꝛȝyuen to oure dettouris / and lede vs not in to temptacioun .· but delyuere vs fro yuele amen […]

c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Matheu 6:9-14, page 3r, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

You should pray like this: "Our father that's in heaven, your name will be sanctified; / your Kingdom will come; your will will be done on Earth, like in heaven. / Give us our bread over other substances, / forgive us of our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us, / and don't bring us into temptation, but instead save us from evil. Amen."

(theology) Sin; acts which go against the dictates of a higher power.


ideo

eo-head

ideo (accusative singular ideon, plural ideoj, accusative plural ideojn)

ideon (accusative singular)
ideoj (plural)
ideojn (accusative plural)


ideo

From Esperanto ideo, from English idea, French idée, German Idee, Italian idea, Russian идея (ideja), Spanish idea, and ultimately from Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa).


U

en-adj

U (not generally comparable, comparative Uer, superlative Uest)

An abbreviation of a word or term beginning with the letter U. Adjective sense 1 (“characteristic of the upper classes”) was coined by British linguist Alan S. C. Ross (1907–1980) in a 1954 article, and popularized by the English journalist and writer Nancy Mitford (1904–1973).

(not comparable, education, espionage) Usually in parentheses: abbreviation of unclassified.


Q

English: max Q

Ancient Greek language
Egyptian language
Etruscan language
Phoenician language
Q

From the Etruscan letter 𐌒 (q, “cu”), from the Ancient Greek letter Ϙ (Q, “qoppa”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤒 (q, “qop”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓃻.

(logic, mathematics) Robinson arithmetic.


Q

In comparing Q 10:10–11 and Mark 6:11, there is no reliable way to determine which exact form of the saying is more primitive, the third person account of Mark or the direct speech recorded in Q.

2006, Brian Han Gregg, The Historical Jesus and the Final Judgment Sayings in Q, Mohr Siebeck, →ISBN, page 103:

(theology, Christianity) The hypothetical common source (logion collection) of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke (from German Quelle (“source”)); all the non-Marcan shared material in those gospels (not always considered a single document)

In this fantasy world, all of the far right’s wildest dreams come true: Q promises that Clinton, Obama, Podesta, Abedin, and even McCain are all either arrested and wearing secret police-issued ankle monitors, or just about to be indicted; that the Steele dossier is a total fabrication personally paid for by Clinton and Obama; and that the Las Vegas massacre was most definitely an inside job connected to the Saudi-Clinton cabal.

2017 December 19, Paris Martineau, “The Storm Is the New Pizzagate — Only Worse”, in New York, archived from the original on 2018-12-26:

In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.

2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian:

At the end of her report, Coaston concluded, “Most people have never heard of QAnon, or Q — and that includes most of Donald Trump’s supporters.” That’s still the case, but the fact that this book is at the top of some of Amazon’s most prominent recommendation lists means that a far larger share of the population will — at a minimum — stumble across these ideas.

2019 March 6, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “How a conspiracy theory about Democrats drinking children’s blood topped Amazon’s best-sellers list”, in Vox, archived from the original on 2019-03-07:

(US politics) Abbreviation of QAnon (“anonymous poster on anonymous online message boards who originated a pro-Trump conspiracy theory”).


Sitz im Leben

(theology) Sitz im Leben, sociological setting


heterological

From Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros, “different”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”), by surface analysis, heterology + -ical.

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A further instance of the uncertainty of Prof. Bergmann's views on the subject of negation, is the distinction (considered by him as at least supposable) between " nicht-richtig " and "unrichtig" (§21,5.). This is done, of course, in order to put a " heterological " meaning into his Axiom of Excluded Middle,

It is the dream of a purely heterological thought at its source. A pure thought of pure difference.

1994, Christopher Norris, Truth and the Ethics of Criticism, →ISBN, page 50:

But a process philosophy, in order to support a purely heterological thought, has to be capable of doing without subjects steering the process or being steered by it, without substantive names designating 'blocks' in motion, and without points of origin or destination invigilating over a predictable trajectory.

2007, Constantin V. Boundas, Columbia Companion to Twentieth-century Philosophies, →ISBN, page 489:


induction

en-noun

induction (countable and uncountable, plural inductions)

Inherited from Middle English induction, from Old French induction, from Latin inductiō, from indūcō (“I lead”). By surface analysis, induct + -ion or induce + -tion.

Meronym: abstraction

(logic) Derivation of general principles from specific instances.

ինդուկցիա

the derivation of general principles from specific instances


chokma

Compare Choctaw chokma, Alabama chookma.


judgement day

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If God's a-coming, he ought to make it by then / Maybe he'll look around himself and say / “Guess it's time for the judgement day!”

1968, Zager and Evans (lyrics and music), “In the Year 2525”:

But when I woke up this morning / I could have sworn it was judgement day

1982, Prince (lyrics and music), “1999 [title]”, in 1999:

(Christianity, Islam, Judaism) The final trial of all humankind, both the living and the dead, by God expected to take place at the end of the world, when each is rewarded or punished according to their merits; the Final Judgment, the Last Judgment.

يَوْم الْحِسَاب

final trial of all humankind at the end of the world


signifier

/ˈsɪɡnɪfaɪɚ/

/ˈsɪɡnɪfaɪə/

merkityksen antaja

something or someone that signifies, makes something more significant or important

Here things are getting better and better for women and people of color, and gay men and lesbians, more and more integrated and open, and all you can think about is some stupid, lame problem with signifiers and signifieds.

2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

(linguistics, philosophy) A sign, such as a written or spoken word, which refers to some concept, object or person, the signified.

signifikant

(linguistics) the sound of spoken word or string of letters on a page that a person recognizes as a sign


bisou

(in the plural, in letters) lots of love


dialectics

From Ancient Greek διαλεκτική (dialektikḗ, “the art of argument through interactive questioning and answering”), from διαλεκτικός (dialektikós, “competent debater”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to participate in a dialogue”), from διά (diá, “inter, through”) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”).

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The dialectics of absolute and relative, concrete and abstract, subject and object, and theory and practice is focused on some of the most important questions in philosophy.

None of these processes and modes of thought enters into the framework of metaphysical reasoning. Dialectics, on the other hand, comprehends things and their representations, ideas, in their essential connection, concatenation, motion, origin and ending. Such processes as those mentioned above are, therefore, so many corroborations of its own method of procedure.

1880, Friedrich Engels, chapter 2, in Socialism: Utopian and Scientific:

(philosophy, uncountable) A systematic method of argument that attempts to resolve the contradictions in opposing views or ideas.


Styx

A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name / Great Gorgon, prince of darknes and dead night, / At which Cocytus quakes and Styx is put to flight.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 13:

For two-and-twenty years he [Doctor Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive Cæsar’s.

1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IV, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (States-General):

Bornless one / As darkness bright / Found not in tongues / Found not in light / Bring down the rain / Drain waters of Styx / Faustian luminary / Redeem blaspheme / Like a day without the dawn / Like a ray void of the sun / Like a storm that brings no calm / I'm most complete yet so undone

2014, “O Father O Satan O Sun!”, performed by Behemoth:

(Greek mythology) The river, in Hades, over which the souls of the dead are ferried by Charon.


deontology

en-noun

deontology (usually uncountable, plural deontologies)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deh₁-
Ancient Greek δέω (déō)
Ancient Greek δεῖ (deî)lbor.
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logíā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English deontology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δέον (déon, “that which is binding, needful, proper, or right”) + English -ology (variant of -logy (suffix denoting a branch of learning or a study of a particular subject)). Δέον (Déon) is the neuter present participle of δεῖ (deî, “it behoves one to, it is necessary to, one must”), from δέω (déō, “to bind, tie; to fasten; to fetter”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh₁- (“to bind”).
Sense 1 (“synonym of ethics”) was coined by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) to refer to censorial or dicastic ethics (ethics based on judgment), while sense 2 (“normative ethical theory that the morality of an action should be based on whether the action follows certain obligations or rules”) derives from the use of the word deontological by the English philosopher Charlie Dunbar Broad (1887–1971) in his book Five Types of Ethical Theory (1930).

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In which the Harmony and Co-incidence of Duty and Self-interest, Virtue and Felicity, Prudence and Benevolence, are Explained, Exemplified, and Applied to the Business of Life. From the MSS. of Jeremy Bentham. Arranged and Edited by John Bowring. In Two Volumes.

Ltd, Broadway House: 68–74 Carter Lane, E.C.4

[Matthew Hale] was no reformer: nothing better than an expounder: every thing stated by him was stated as he found it, or conceived it to be: no inquiries as to what it ought to be: in the eyes of lawyers—not to speak of the dupes—that is to say, as yet, the generality of non-lawyers—the is and the ought to be (or, as in Greek it would be so much better—the το ον and the το δεον, from which last, Ethics has received the more expressive name of Deontology), were one and indivisible.

1826 October, Jeremy Bentham, “Art. VIII.—Observations on the Actual State of the English Law of Real Property, with the Outlines of a Code. By James Humphreys, Esq. of Lincoln’s Inn, Barrister. 8vo. Murray. London. [book review]”, in The Westminster Review, volume VI, number XII, London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, →OCLC, page 448:

The principle, then, on which Deontology is grounded, is the principle of Utility; in other words, that every action is right or wrong—worthy or unworthy—deserving approbation or disapprobation, in proportion to its tendency to contribute to, or to diminish the amount of public happiness.

a. 1833 (date written), Jeremy Bentham, “Deontology Explained—Term Why Adopted”, in John Bowring, editor, Deontology; or, The Science of Morality: […], volume I, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Browne, Green, and Longman; Edinburgh: William Tait, published 1834, →OCLC, part I (Theory of Virtue), pages 23–24:

And then she discoursed with voluble blandiloquence on deontologies and morals, and pondered with imposing gravity on ancient lores, and wisdoms, and beatifications, and in all her countenance seemeth as demure as a babe asleep.

1898, [John Martin Russell], “[Book of Revelation.] Chapter XIII, 11–18. The Second Beast.”, in The Seven Ages of Creation: Or Cosmos and the Mysteries Expounded […], Fort Dodge, Iowa: E. A. Tryon, […], →OCLC, page 231:

ethics

Synonym of ethics (“the study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct”)


rhizome

From rhiz- + -ome. As philosophical metaphor, used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

The corpus of Kafka's writing, they argue, is ‘a rhizome, a burrow’ (K 7)—an uncentered and meandering growth like crab grass, a complex, aleatory network of pathways like a rabbit warren. A rhizome, as Deleuze and Guattari explain in Rhizome: an Introduction (1976), is the antithesis of a root-tree structure, or ‘arborescence’, the structural model which has dominated Western thought from Porphyrian trees, to Linnaean taxonomies, to Chomskyan sentence diagrams.

1989, Ronald Bogue, Deleuze and Guattari, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 107:

Critical theorists have often drawn from Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the rhizome when discussing the potential of the Internet. While the Internet may structurally appear as a rhizome, its day-to-day usage by millions via search engines precludes experiencing the random interconnectedness and potential democratizing function.

2008, A. Hess, “Reconsidering the Rhizome”, in Amanda Spink, Michael Zimmer, editors, Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 35:

(philosophy, critical theory) A so-called “image of thought” that apprehends multiplicities.