wellsean
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of H. G. Wells, an English writer.
noun
One who writes in the manner or style of H. G. Wells, or whose writing treats topics associated with Wells.
adj
Having a structure within which both polygonality and connectivity are fractional.
Example Sentences
- "The extension of such a rigid word as morality, until it includes its own contradictions, is typically Wellsean."
- "In this way, Wilde develops a Wellsean utopian scheme to “better the interplay”: a scheme to recover the connection between the self and others, allowing individuals to counter aestheticism’s drive to wholeness and to grow and change as art does."
- "Post-Wellseans have sometimes made the alternatives more concurrent. Herbert Read in The Green Child (1935) presented as simultaneous in time two contrasting utopias"
- "The unit cell contains a single 8-connected cube-centered vertex, six 4-connected distorted square planar vertices and eight 4-connected distorted tetrahedral vertices. It is a Wellsean structure with a Wells point symbol given by (468)(48)(48) and a Schläfli symbol of (5, 4.2667)."
Etymology
From the surname of English author H. G. Wells, plus the suffix -ean, which forms adjectives from proper names.