inscape
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.39 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The distinctive design that constitutes individual identity; a concept derived by Gerard Manley Hopkins from the ideas of the medieval philosopher Duns Scotus.
Example Sentences
- "There was a Steinway grand piano [...] a cherrywood writing table, and an assortment of floor lamps, table lamps, and "bridge" lamps that sprang up all over the congested inscape like sumac."
Etymology
By surface analysis, in + -scape.