philosophistic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Exhibiting a love of or tendency toward sophistry; pertaining to spurious philosophy.
Example Sentences
- "That many philosophistic and superstitious conceits have been mixed with it, in process of time, proves nothing against the general fact as stated."
- "A philosophy of the French Revolution should take care to avoid such philosphistic procedures."
- "This premodern pitilessness Pettigrew deprecated, but he was less enthusiastic about aspects of modernity other than compassion, like “atheism, deism, and philosophistic religion, so prevalent in the soi-disant enlightened countries."
- "The real epochs are not exempt from philosophistic caprices; the ideal sometimes become converted into a mythology (though full of profound meanings)."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more philosophistic (comparative)
most philosophistic (superlative)