Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

leontievian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: leon-tie-vian
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative form of Leontiefian (“relating to the economist Wassily Leontief”).

adj

Of or relating to Aleksei N. Leontiev (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Лео́нтьев; 1903–1979), Soviet developmental psychologist and philosopher and the founder of activity theory.

Inflected Forms

more Leontievian (comparative) most Leontievian (superlative)

Questions

What does leontievian mean?: Alternative form of Leontiefian (“relating to the economist Wassily Leontief”).

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