lateralist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characteristic of lateralism; pertaining to the interactions of opposing interests of equal power.
adj
Favoring a lateral approach or explanation over one that involves a different direction, such as a vertical one.
noun
One who engages in lateral thinking.
noun
One who favors lateralism.
Example Sentences
- "If 'left-winger' and 'right-winger' are terms of opprobrium moreover, the journalists can help their chosen cause by invoking lateralist terms to characterise, in the guise of simply describing, one of the parties in a dispute. This implies that the other party is 'centrist' or 'moderate' or 'non-extremist.'"
- "A chief criticism levelled against American "lateralist" and "polar" theorists is precisely the accusation that they are attempting to avoid the issue of the development of relations between the two socio-economic systems, i.e., the essentially bipolar politico-strategic structure of postwar international relations."
- "Albertano's more lateralist, Aristotelian sympathies are also reflected in his choice of setting, scenario and protagonists."
- "A lateralist and multilateralist exchange of languages and value systems redeems economy from reduction to profit and loss."
- "Within such a dynamic and seemingly boundaryless context for organizing, what looks like an anarchistic and lateralist set of relations, there are both challenges and advantages to social change agents"
- "...but as far as African bedded deposits are concerned I think that the prospector following either the “ lateralist " or " profundist " advice will waste much time and money unless he is also guided by a study of possible sources of the ore he seeks, and of the probable itenerary of the solutions to which such ore owes its present position."