catalytic war
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.22 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "By this definition, World War I was a catalytic war, set off by Serbia and Austria, which also had some overtones of "reciprocal fear of surprise attack" and "self-fulfilling prophecy," because the side which mobilized first was likely to win."
- "Indeed a catalytic war seems much more likely to be touched off by a desperate or vengeful power than an ambitious one."