kairotic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Related to, or characteristic of a kairos.
Example Sentences
- "They seem to have a kairotic sense of timing. Some people dismiss this as luck. But it's much more than that."
- "The present captured in a cartoon is a kairotic present—a present that affects the life of a people, the destiny of a nation"
- "Regardless of the quantity of the duration, because a kairotic event cannot happen at just “any time,” it is also distinct from an abstract articulation of chance. A kairiotic event does not happen randomly; in some qualititative sense, it is a "time of crisis [and] . . . opportunity," which is solicited or even demanded by the situation itself (Smith 10)."
- "Kairotic moments may present themselves to vigilant rhetors, but in turn rhetors can craft a kairotic moment as well."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more kairotic (comparative)
most kairotic (superlative)