单词 | dialecticism |
释义 | dialecticismn. 1. Philosophy. The philosophy or practice of dialectic (in various senses of dialectic n.1). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical disputation or dialectics > [noun] dialectica1382 dialectical1528 dialect?1545 wit-craft1573 logic1601 dialectics1641 logism1656 dialecticism1840 1840 T. Gordon tr. W. Menzel German Lit. I. 304 The system became an absolute dialecticism [Ger. Dialektik] without contents, without object. 1901 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 298 A man..may be determined to do nothing not pronounced reasonable, either by his own cogitations (rationalism), or by public discussion (dialecticism), or by crucial experiment. 1936 H. Read Surrealism 81 Blake labours in hope that Enthusiasm and Life may not cease. In the whole of his writings I feel the presence of an instinctive dialecticism. 1948 Theology 51 30 A world in which dialecticism and existentialism are the desperate and tortured answers that faith must grasp at. 2002 Soundings 85 269 If this sounds like the dogged modernist dialecticism favored by Horkheimer and Adorno..I will accept the affiliation with a caveat. 2. A word or other linguistic feature characteristic of a particular dialect; dialectal quality or character; the influence of dialect. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > dialectal quality dialecticism1841 dialectality1864 1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 409 ‘Set up a hullabalu’; ‘kicked up a ellabalu’, they are used indiscriminately; the former however must be held as the more correct dialecticism. 1888 Academy 14 Jan. 27 Dialecticism, phoneticism, ellipsis. 1961 G. Struve Russ. Stories 358 It may be a dialecticism, or some special slang word. 1999 C. H. Elster Big Bk. Beastly Mispronunciations 33 I do not believe, as some assert, that the language is threatened by this dialecticism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1840 |
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