Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

culturgen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cul-tur-gen
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One of the propagating mutating cultural units that form the subject of memetics.

Etymology

Introduced by Charles Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson in their book Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process (1981); from culture + -gen.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: culture

Inflected Forms

culturgens (plural)

Synonyms

meme

Questions

What does culturgen mean?: One of the propagating mutating cultural units that form the subject of memetics.
Where does culturgen come from?: Introduced by Charles Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson in their book Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process (1981); from culture + -gen.

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