ethea
/ˈiːθɪə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "From them sprang, all with a sense of dividing and mapping out boundaries, Moira (Destiny) and Nomos (Law), Nemos (Sanctuary) and Nemesis (Avenging Anger or Righteous Indignation), Ethea, the haunts of the country in which one ranges, and so customs, established behaviour, habits."
- "Hartmann means this interpretation of what most would call historical historical relativism to apply also to the contemporaneous diversity of ethea among cultures, sub-cultures, and (evidently) individuals who adopt the viewpoint of one of these."
- "These three valuational attitudes form a triangle of mutually opposing ethea."
- "The question arises from a limited ethos combined with its universalization, which transgresses its own limits, and its claim to authority over other ethea."
- "A politics of the order of the Athenian Three has no more person or ethea in it — has only a psyche of halve to logos and their false conjunction supported by an invented episteme, an invented noun instead of a participle…"
- "This question echoes the earliest use of ethos that dates back to Homer and Hesiod, influences Isocrates’ theory of rhetoric and moral character, and, as Charles Chamberlain notes, “refers to the range or arena where someone is most truly at home and which underlies all the fine appearances [‘habits’ and ‘customs’: also ethea] that people adopt”."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ἤθεα