neopositivist
/nioʊpˈɔzətəvˌɪst/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to neopositivism.
noun
An adherent of neopositivism.
Example Sentences
- "Written by accretion rather than from a single author's interpretation Wikipedia has a neo-positivist mania for facts that devalues interpretation in depth, yet in matching Friedrich's review against Nabokov it also shows that it is far from neutral."
- "The neo-positivist stance is by far the dominant discourse of our age. Roughly put, it sees the world as an orderly cosmos. It believes that humans can navigate, deal with and master it to their advantage, and that knowledge (particularly scientific knowledge) can curb the anxiety and uncertainty of living-and-dying."
Etymology
From neo- + positivist.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more neopositivist (comparative)
most neopositivist (superlative)
neo-positivist (alternative)
neopositivists (plural)