Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

descartesean

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: descarte-sean
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative form of Descartesian.

Example Sentences

"This displays one side of the binary in all its Platonic-Descartesean arrogance."
"It had finally become clear to me that as long as one maintained that, in some Descartesean fashion, the individual was the ultimate judge of truth and the source of all legitimate authority, the Jewish group (or any other, for that matter) could not be given its proper due."
"To a philosopher, theories of ideas—Descartesean, Lockean, Humean, and so forth—are the subject of intense and unresolved debate."

Etymology

From Descartes + -ean.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Descartes

Questions

What does descartesean mean?: Alternative form of Descartesian.
Where does descartesean come from?: From Descartes + -ean.

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