Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ersatzer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
er-satzer
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A proponent of ersatzism, the doctrine that possible worlds are merely abstract and do not have the same reality as the present world

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Etymology

From ersatz + -er. Coined in 1986 by the philosopher David Kellogg Lewis.

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What does ersatzer mean?
A proponent of ersatzism, the doctrine that possible worlds are merely abstract and do not have the same reality as the present world
Where does ersatzer come from?
From ersatz + -er. Coined in 1986 by the philosopher David Kellogg Lewis.

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