单词 | acultural |
释义 | aculturaladj. Not determined by or relating to any specific culture; (also) outside of cultural norms. ΚΠ 1935 J. Dollard Criteria for Life Hist. ii. 29 This is not an acultural view; it is, however, set off against the cross-cultural institutional view of behavior. 1945 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 58 33 The clown..cleverly comments upon the distance between the acultural element and the prevailing, conscious custom. 1968 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 74 78/1 Throughout the writings, to be social is seemingly equated with being cultural, the acultural realm being conspicuously individualistic. 1992 ELT Jrnl. 46 30 At the international level, it could be argued, English is essentially acultural: it is the medium for subcultures which cut across national and political boundaries. 2001 Guardian (Nexis) 21 Jan. 34 The absence of a desire for bricks and mortar will continue to be considered anathema, anarchic, acultural, and worthy of mainstream distrust or derision. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1935 |
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