ideonomy
/ˌaɪdiˈɑnəmi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A combinatorial "science of ideas", for the categorization and analysis of any kind of idea.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "According to Gunkel, ideonomy is at the same time a fundamental science and applied science. The subject of research is ideas as such and the applicable laws."
- "My current favorite list is the 186 things ideonomy can do. As a young aspiring scientist, with nary a hint of irony, Gunkel sought to pitch ideonomy as the "use of same to describe, generate, investigate, or otherwise treat all possible ideas related to any subject, problem, thing, or other idea.""
- "As human and artificial intelligence supplant gene-based evolution the next and perhaps final stage in this progression may be ideonomy, the science of ideas, which can proceed at the much faster speed of thought."
Etymology
Championed as the science of ideas by Patrick M. Gunkel (1947–2017), from ideo- + -nomy. Although Gunkel stated on the “About” page of his ideonomy website that “supposedly the word ideonomy was first coined by the French Encyclopedists” to refer to a science of ideas, no direct evidence of this coinage has been found to date.