Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

superdupervenience

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
su-perduper-ve-nience
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

Etymology

Blend of super-duper + supervenience, coined by Terence Horgan in a 1993 paper: https://web.archive.org/web/20160307175427/http://thorgan.faculty.arizona.edu/sites/thorgan.faculty.arizona.edu/files/From%20Supervenience%20to%20Superdupervenience-%20Meeting%20the%20Demands%20of%20a%20Material%20World.pdf.

Usage

Questions

What does superdupervenience mean?
Ontological supervenience that is robustly explainable in a materialistically explainable way.
Where does superdupervenience come from?
Blend of super-duper + supervenience, coined by Terence Horgan in a 1993 paper: https://web.archive.org/web/20160307175427/http://thorgan.faculty.arizona.edu/sites/thorgan.faculty.arizona.edu/files/From%20Supervenience%20to%20Superdupervenience-%20Meeting%20the%20Demands%20of%20a%20Material%20World.pdf.

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