Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sciential

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sci-en-tial
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to science or to knowledge.

adj

Example Sentences

"But first low Reverence don, as to the power That dwelt within, whose presence had infus’d Into the plant sciential sap"
"One of the wisest of uninspired men has not hesitated to declare the dog a great mystery, on account of this dawning of a moral nature unaccompanied by any the least evidence of reason, in whichever of the two senses we interpret the word—whether as the practical reason, that is, the power of proposing an ultimate end, the determinability of the Will by ideas; or as the sciential reason, that is, the faculty of concluding universal and necessary truths from particular and contingent appearances."

Etymology

Latin scientia (“knowledge”) + suffix -al.

Inflected Forms

more sciential (comparative) most sciential (superlative)

Questions

What does sciential mean?: Of or pertaining to science or to knowledge.
Where does sciential come from?: Latin scientia (“knowledge”) + suffix -al.

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