Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

esemplastic

/ɛsɛmˈplæstɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: es-em-plas-tic
IPA: /ɛsɛmˈplæstɪk/

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Unifying; having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole.

Example Sentences

"1893: all the verses when taken together … are deficient in harmony, and consequently there is little or no fusion. The esemplastic power of the writer's feeling was not strong enough, did not extend beyond the individual verse. — Hiram Corson, A Primer of English Verse (pp. 21–22)"
"2003: he … developed a doctrine of the organic (‘esemplastic’) imagination, over and against the passive and mechanical faculty of ‘fancy’ — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 405)"

Etymology

From Greek ἐς ‘into’ + ἕν + πλαστικός (from πλάσσειν ‘to mould’). Coined by Coleridge, probably after German ineinsbildung ‘forming into one’.

Derived Forms

esemplastically

Frequently Paired Words

esemplasy

Rhymes With

fantastic plastic enthusiastic drastic sarcastic elastic stochastic monastic dynastic spastic bombastic thermoplastic

Questions

How do you pronounce esemplastic?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɛsɛmˈplæstɪk/.
What does esemplastic mean?: Unifying; having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole.
Where does esemplastic come from?: From Greek ἐς ‘into’ + ἕν + πλαστικός (from πλάσσειν ‘to mould’). Coined by Coleridge, probably after German ineinsbildung ‘forming into one’.

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