irreducible
/ɪrɪˈdjuːsɪb(ə)l
/adjective
Not able to be reduced or simplified: literature is often irreducible to normative ideas...
- She momentarily succumbs to the tendency to simplify irreducible complexities.
- Each individual is, in a certain sense, absolute, irreducible to another.
- Similarly, collective identities are irreducible to the sum of the experiences of individuals.
Derivatives
irreducibility
/ noun ...- In addition, she rightly admits the inherent irreducibility of all media.
- Plausible though the notion may seem, there are serious difficulties in formalizing Wolfram's notion of ‘computational irreducibility.’
- In fact, the poet depends on the irreducibility of such cognitively significant meanings in order for him to be creative.
irreducibly
- For Diderot, every work is the legitimate property of its author because a work of literature is the irreducibly singular expression of that author's thoughts and feelings.
- Impeccable as his Italian credentials were, even after twenty years, Tetrode remained irreducibly a man of the North.
- Here, it is crucial that there is no formula that connects them, that our experience is irreducibly multiform.
Rhymes
- locomotively
- locomotiveness
- locomotive power
- locomotive rhythm
- locomotive runner
- locomotive shed
- locomotive-type
- locomotivity
- locomotor
- locomotor ataxia
- locomotory
- loco-spot
- loco-spotter
- loco-spotting
- locoweed
- Locrensian
- Locrian mode
- loculament
- locular
- standardization
- Carew, Rod
- carex
- Carey, George
- Carey, Mariah
- Carey, Peter