homo ludens
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.66 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative letter-case form of homo ludens.
Example Sentences
- "To a homo ludens, playing is an aim in itself and justifies any effort. A real homo ludens does not fuse “ordinary life” with playing. He transforms “ordinary life” into something qualitatively different."
- "The sandpit, mud, lollipop sticks, goo, plasticine, oozing clay and, later, petri dishes and test tubes: playing with such stuff, Hall argues, has clearly influenced the materialisations of contemporary art, so much of it three-dimensional, inherently transient and labile, and playful. Homo ludens has supplanted homo faber."
- "It takes a homo ludens to eat the only fruit forbidden by God, unthinkingly and playfully. The afterlife is never seriously conceived of as a workshop, a library or a laboratory."
- "“Homo ludens has always had a talent for inventing jobs of the non-existential kind. The vast majority of the population is already doing luxury jobs like yours and mine,” he says, nodding towards my notepad."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: homō lūdēns