polytropic
/pˌɑlˌitɹˈɔpɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.29 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Able to take various courses of action; resourceful, versatile, adaptable.
adj
Of bees or other insects: visiting a wide circle of flowers, visiting the flowers of many different species.
adj
Pertaining to the constraint that variance in pressure or volume leaves heat constant; or (more generally) the constraint that any change in the thermodynamic properties leave a specific property constant.
Example Sentences
- "Just as quickly, however, she turned her polytropic talents to other fields, penning an incredible 7,000 encyclopedia articles during the mid-1950s."
- "Odysseus, especially the polytropic Odysseus of the Odyssey, is a symbol of a carnivalized notion of identity."
- "[I]t is the difference between having few interests highly aroused, the monotropic tendency, and having many interests less highly aroused, the polytropic tendency."
- "Where polytropic minds comfortably entertain many simultaneous interests, each moderately aroused, the monotropic mind will maintain only very few simultaneous interests, with each one highly aroused and intensely focused upon."