evenemential
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to events, as directly experienced, as opposed to ideas about them.
Example Sentences
- "Rather than finding that thought "disturbing," Clausewitz would suggest that any science of war that left nothing to chance would founder as the "individual in history" made the decisions that are the stuff of "evenemential," or narrative, military history, of the action-reaction phenomena of organized social violence."
- "Unlike evenemential temporality, which captures historicity in real time, we are dealing with a deferred temporality, the recording of an event that has already happened."
- "Sometimes, for example when he is speaking about the 'evenemential field', the event appears as objective: the evenemential field is supposedly the same for all historians."
Etymology
From French événementiel.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: événementiel
Inflected Forms
more evenemential (comparative)
most evenemential (superlative)