malthusian
/mælˈθjuːzɪən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.06 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "For first, this college life, opening to scholarships, and ending, perchance, as you political economists would desire, in Malthusian fellowships,—premiums for celibacy,— consider what manner of thing it is!"
- "Even under the best of circumstances, however, no one would depend on this Malthusian adjustment process to account for the ability of modern economies to maintain a constant saving rate and steady growth for 20 years at a time without catastrophe."
- "A mixture of this Malthusian and ethno-nationalist thinking is being distilled into political campaigning, as in a political pamphlet described in Turner and Bailey’s research paper from SVP, the largest party in Switzerland’s federal assembly, which shows a city crowded by people and cars belching out pollution, with a tagline that translates to “stop massive immigration”."
- "This paper develops a dynamic Schumpeterian growth model to analyze how extractive institutions in the form of the resource appropriation by a politically dominant elite shape the transition from Malthusian stagnation to sustained long-run economic growth."
- "As Tess grew older, and began to see how matters stood, she felt quite a Malthusian towards her mother for thoughtlessly giving her so many little sisters and brothers, when it was such a trouble to nurse and provide for them."
Etymology
Etymology tree English Malthus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Malthusian From Malthus + -ian.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /mælˈθjuːzɪən/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Malthusian catastrophe
Malthusian check
Malthusian crisis
Malthusian crunch
Malthusian spectre
Malthusian trap
neo-Malthusian