metavalue
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A standard by which good is measured, which is incommensurable with other values.
Example Sentences
- "Efficiency as a metavalue is applied forward, to the future; but as a value it is measured backwards, in respect to the past."
- "The preceding discussion assumes that happiness is the metavalue that the student maximizes. Perhaps some people seek happiness and others seek pleasure, social status, self-fulfillment, moral goodness, and so forth."
- "The metavalue of truth, however, is the notion of truth in its overarching character—the value society holds that demands, for example, that truth values be determined for claims and charges."