chronophagous
/kɹɒˈnɒ.fə.ɡəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "The method, however, cannot be considered strictly scientific and is much more tedious and chronophagous than the direct determination."
- "As a chronophagous activity as it is, reducing the population's leisure budget, transports also imply a great expenditure of physical and nervous energy to the detriment of manpower's potentiality […]"
- "Chronophagous Discourse: A Study of Clerico-Legal Appropriation of the World in an Islamic Tradition"
- "[W]e have historical masses construed as individual states or permanent conditions of phylogeny. They are conceived as supra-historical masses which speak in the tones of a chronophagous discourse. Thus societies and nations rise and fall, but do not change in any serious sense, and the wheel of fortune is animated, quite literally, by internal, intransitive, self-subsistent pneumatic impulses ([Johann Gottfried] Herder's Kräfte) and which together can be described by the term Volksgeist."
- "Because modern life is chronophagous and resting necessary, we have invented hypnotherapy—apprenticeship while sleeping."
- "Though highly accurate, this method is chronophagous and expensive, making the large numbers of genes required for sequencing a challenge. This was really the start of the demand for rapid and low-cost sequencing technologies, which were eventually met in 2005 by the development of massively parallel sequencing (MPS) (also known as next-generation sequencing, NGS)."
Etymology
From chrono- + -phagous.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /kɹɒˈnɒ.fə.ɡəs/
Inflected Forms
more chronophagous (comparative)
most chronophagous (superlative)