Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

disjunctivism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
dis-junc-tivism
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

Etymology

Etymology tree English disjunctive Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English disjunctivism From disjunctive + -ism.

Usage

Questions

What does disjunctivism mean?
A school of thought that rejects the existence of sense data in certain cases, believing that a hallucination differs from a veridical experience in that the latter is the experience of an actual external entity.
Where does disjunctivism come from?
Etymology tree English disjunctive Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English disjunctivism From disjunctive + -ism.

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