catascopic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Related to spying or scouting.
adj
Of scientific forms of thinking which take wider contexts (groups, society, etc.) as a main frame of reference and study and explain individual behaviour in relationship to this broader context.
Example Sentences
- "To be aggelos, to be an angel, to exercise this angelic office, this catascopic office of spy and scout, he really must be free of all attachments."
- "New strategies were needed too, from the macroscopic (satellite imaging analysis), through the catascopic (aerial photography by kite; fig. 6, sidebar) to the microscopic (water-sieving and soil sampling [...])."
- "The functionalist approach of societies is catascopic. Social phenomena are conceived of as parts of a whole that are determined by this whole."
Inflected Forms
more catascopic (comparative)
most catascopic (superlative)