Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

monadic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English

Syllables: monadic
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

of, relating to, or being a monad

adj

adj

of or relating to the Monas genus of microorganisms

adj

having an arity of one (taking a single argument or operand)

Example Sentences

"We can refuse to view each of these areas as distinct and monadic categories of identity and we can refuse to study them in isolation from one another."
""The monadic existential quantifier ∃, as in ∃x, may express existence of x in formal logic or mathematics"."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μοναδικός (monadikós, “single”), from μονάς (monás, “a unit”); see monad. By surface analysis, monad + -ic.

Derived Forms

monadically monadicity nonmonadic

Phrases

monadic predicate logic monadic second-order logic

Frequently Paired Words

monad dyadic triadic polyadic variadic

Questions

What does monadic mean?: of, relating to, or being a monad
Where does monadic come from?: From Ancient Greek μοναδικός (monadikós, “single”), from μονάς (monás, “a unit”); see monad. By surface analysis, monad + -ic.

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