Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hermeneuticize

/ˌhɜɹ.məˈn(j)uː.təˌsaɪz/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: her-me-neu-ti-cize
IPA: /ˌhɜɹ.məˈn(j)uː.təˌsaɪz/

30

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To analyze, consider, or regard hermeneutically; to apply hermeneutics to.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"That, by the way, is all I want to exegesize and defend in Tom Nagel's viewpoint. The rest of the hermeneutics of 'viewpoints' is not (in my view) all that relevant, insofar as the explanatory gap (on which Nagel is unaccountably an optimist!) is concerned. Viewpoint is just one of the many manifestations of consciousness and its countless synonyms and paranyms that one can single out and hermeneuticize without making any real inroads on the explanatory gap itself."

Etymology

From hermeneutic (adjective) + -ize.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˌhɜɹ.məˈn(j)uː.təˌsaɪz/

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

hermeneuticizes (present, singular) hermeneuticizing (participle, present) hermeneuticized (participle, past) hermeneuticized (past) hermeneuticise (alternative, Commonwealth)

Derived Forms

hermeneuticization

Frequently Paired Words

hermeneut hermeneutic hermeneutically hermeneutician hermeneuticist hermeneutics

Questions

How do you pronounce hermeneuticize?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌhɜɹ.məˈn(j)uː.təˌsaɪz/.
What does hermeneuticize mean?: To analyze, consider, or regard hermeneutically; to apply hermeneutics to.
Where does hermeneuticize come from?: From hermeneutic (adjective) + -ize.

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