Rousseauishadj.
/ˈruːsəʊɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈrusoʊɪʃ/ = Rousseauesque adj.1
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > naturalism > [adjective] > of or relating to Rousseauism
Rousseauish1783
Rousseauvian1806
Rousseauian1850
Rousseauite1859
Rousseauan1862
Rousseauist1873
Rousseauesque1889
Rousseauistic1895
1783 T. Twining Let. 5 July (1991) I. 251 Surely he [sc. James Barry] is a very Rousseau-ish being?
1832 in tr. H.-G. de R. de Mirabeau Lett. II. lxxii. 203 (note) It [sc. Mirabeau's prose] was, in fact, too broad in manner, too thoroughly French, too Rousseauish—if he may be allowed to coin an adjective—for the purity of English taste.
1879 E. Dowden Southey 53 A creature overflowing with Rousseauish sensibility.
1934 W. Lewis Men without Art ii. ii. 128 There is a great deal more of that Rousseauish, natural-springishness, in much recent work in literature than is generally recognized.
1967 B. W. Alderson tr. B. Hürlimann Three Cent. Children's Bks. Europe ix. 120 The Romanticism and Rousseau-ish idealism in books about America and the Indians.
1995 J. Brodsky On Grief & Reason 192 What's so new about someone's belief that a just society exists elsewhere, so special about this old Rousseauish lunacy?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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