Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

legal positivism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.41 in modern English

Syllables: legal -pos-i-tivism
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A school of thought in jurisprudence in which the law is seen as separated from moral values, i.e. the law is posited by lawmakers (humans).

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

legal positivisms (plural)

Questions

What does legal positivism mean?: A school of thought in jurisprudence in which the law is seen as separated from moral values, i.e. the law is posited by lawmakers (humans).

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