Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thoughtseed

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: thought-seed
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A metaphor for the very beginning of a concept, belief, or intention that has the potential to grow, develop, and eventually influence future reality.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Surely the tiniest thoughtseed planted so long ago in the mother-heart of the world ought to have led us ere this to see that, whether we know it or not, we do weave garments for our children's spirits, before they are responsible, by our attitude towards them and towards life."
"Even so you yourself sow thoughtseed among your friends and union and family, even if you don't know you are a-sowing."
"[…] in discussing Vygotsky's notion of inner speech, elucidates, "Unformulated in words, a thoughtseed remains vague and provides only the possibility of having a meaning" (p. 44)."

Etymology

Possibly from a calque of German Gedankensamen, equivalent to thought + seed.

Usage

Inflected Forms

thoughtseeds (plural) thought-seed (alternative) thought seed (alternative)

Questions

What does thoughtseed mean?: A metaphor for the very beginning of a concept, belief, or intention that has the potential to grow, develop, and eventually influence future reality.
Where does thoughtseed come from?: Possibly from a calque of German Gedankensamen, equivalent to thought + seed.

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