ockhamistic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to William of Ockham, 13th-14th century English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher.
Example Sentences
- "2000, Torben Braüner, Per Hasle, and Peter Øhstrøm, "Determinism and the Origins of Temporal Logic", pages 185-206 in Howard Barringer, Michael Fisher, Dov Gabbay, and Graham Gough, editors, Advances in Temporal Logic, Applied Logic Series 16, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Furthermore, the treatment of determinism in two of Prior's proposed temporal systems, namely the Ockhamistic and Peircean systems, is investigated."
Etymology
Etymology tree English Ockham Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -istic English Ockhamistic From Ockham + -istic.
Inflected Forms
more Ockhamistic (comparative)
most Ockhamistic (superlative)