heliocentricism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "And as to Copernicus, he declared most expressly in his preface that he spoke of Heliocentricism as a pure hypothesis; the imagination of which was useful for the calculation of planetary orbits, but which “need not be true or even probable,” i.e., resting on any solid ground whatever."
- "I do not say for example that Heliocentricism is no truer than Geocentricism, but is only a simpler hypothesis."
Etymology
From heliocentric + -ism.