projecting
/pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Giving an outward appearance, in order to avoid a direct connection or to disguise or inflate the real essence.
noun
A projecting part.
noun
Assumption of qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality; projection.
Example Sentences
- "I caught and tore my coat on the projecting nail."
- "The movie projector here is, of course, an analog of Soul, and its projectings (abstracting from the movie screen on which they fall) analogs of Soul's ontically generative activities."
- "The sombre shadows, cast by those huge houses of which it is composed, and the streams of faint light cutting the darkness here and there, where the entrance to some fantastic alley pierces the sable mass of building—the strange projectings, recedings, and windings […]"