acategoricaladj.

Brit.

/əˌkatᵻˈɡɒrᵻkl/,

/ˌeɪkatᵻˈɡɒrᵻkl/, U.S.

/ˌeɪˌkædəˈɡɔrəkəl/,

/əˌkædəˈɡɔrəkəl/

Forms: see a- prefix⁶ and categorical adj. and n.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: a- prefix⁶, categorical adj.

Etymology: < a- prefix⁶ + categorical adj. In recent use in quots. 1977, 2002 after French a-catégorique (M. Foucault, 1970 (in the paper translated in quot. 1977) or earlier).

Not belonging to or fitting into a category; not using categories or categorization; unsystematic in reasoning.

ΚΠ

1661 K. W. Confused Characters 117 [They] fill up their sermon with the riff raff of their own nodles..and a multitude of illogicall acatagoricall reasons and arguments.

1955 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 13 490 The image of Figure 2 is not assignable to person, place, or thing. Its implications are acategorical, yet cosmological.

1977 D. F. Bouchard & S. Simon tr. M. Foucault Lang., Counter-Memory, Pract. in Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. (1979) 37 371/1 Difference can only be liberated through the invention of an acategorical thought.

2002 C. Colebrook Irony in Work of Philos. ii. 54 When we confront the ‘acategorical’ thinking of Bouvard and Pécuchet we are brought up against the impersonal difference or multiplicity from which thinking emerges.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	acategorical
释义	acategoricaladj. Brit. /əˌkatᵻˈɡɒrᵻkl/, /ˌeɪkatᵻˈɡɒrᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌeɪˌkædəˈɡɔrəkəl/, /əˌkædəˈɡɔrəkəl/ Forms: see a- prefix⁶ and categorical adj. and n. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: a- prefix⁶, categorical adj. Etymology: < a- prefix⁶ + categorical adj. In recent use in quots. 1977, 2002 after French a-catégorique (M. Foucault, 1970 (in the paper translated in quot. 1977) or earlier). Not belonging to or fitting into a category; not using categories or categorization; unsystematic in reasoning. ΚΠ 1661 K. W. Confused Characters 117 [They] fill up their sermon with the riff raff of their own nodles..and a multitude of illogicall acatagoricall reasons and arguments. 1955 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 13 490 The image of Figure 2 is not assignable to person, place, or thing. Its implications are acategorical, yet cosmological. 1977 D. F. Bouchard & S. Simon tr. M. Foucault Lang., Counter-Memory, Pract. in Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. (1979) 37 371/1 Difference can only be liberated through the invention of an acategorical thought. 2002 C. Colebrook Irony in Work of Philos. ii. 54 When we confront the ‘acategorical’ thinking of Bouvard and Pécuchet we are brought up against the impersonal difference or multiplicity from which thinking emerges. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1661
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