Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

homo insipiens

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ho-mo in-sip-i-ens
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Humans as a group, seen as a foolish species.

Derogatory; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"On the contrary, at the moment there seems to have been a slight retrograde movement; man is Homo insipiens. We are hovering on the brink of a precipice, winding round that dizzy path up which we may ultimately reach the peaks of Wisdom, but off which we may so easily topple to destruction."
"What Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin have called the Sixth Extinction is the one now being perpetrated by Homo sapiens – or Homo insipiens as my old German teacher William Cartwright preferred to say."
"Homo sapiens, lost in his arrogance and avarice, destroys and razes planet Earth, turning himself into Homo insipiens, in fact unshering in the sixth great destruction and extinction of species in present time."

Etymology

From Homo sapiens (“the human species”, literally “wise man”), replacing sapiēns (“wise”) with Latin īnsipiēns (“foolish”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: īnsipiēns

Usage

Phrases

Homo economicus Homo reciprocans homo sovieticus Homo superior Homo superioris

Frequently Paired Words

Homo economicus Homo reciprocans homo sovieticus Homo superior Homo superioris

Synonyms

Homo idioticus

Questions

What does homo insipiens mean?: Humans as a group, seen as a foolish species.
Where does homo insipiens come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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