dynamis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.40 in modern English

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"I have tried to explain the sense of dynamis fundamental to Aristotle's philosophy."
"Heidegger deals in this text with Aristotle's attempt to explicate dynamis and energeia as one of manifold ways in which being is expressed."
"Like Heidegger's Aristotle, Marcuse argues that being “reveals” itself in the relation of dynamis to energeia."

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis).

dunamis (alternative)

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