derridan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to Jacques Derrida (born Jackie Élie Derrida; 1930–2004), French philosopher best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction.
Example Sentences
- "This is the final Derridan manoeuvre, the showing up of ‘blind spots’ in a text, or the ‘blindness’ of an author to certain textual ‘différances’ or ‘suppléments’ in his own text, operative though not observed."
- "One could say that in Blanchot the absent is more present than the present, and there are many occasions in reading him when he stands out as a Derridan avant la lettre."
Etymology
From Derrida + -an.