Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

positivistic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.34 in modern English

Syllables: pos-i-tivis-tic
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to positivism.

Example Sentences

"The scientistic and positivistic version of Marxism developed in Engels's later writings was adopted by Kautsky without modification; his world-view was dominated by scientific rigour devoid of sentiment and value-judgements […]"

Etymology

Etymology tree English positivist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English positivistic From positivist + -ic.

Derived Forms

positivistically postpositivistic

Synonyms

positivist positive

Questions

What does positivistic mean?: Of or pertaining to positivism.
Where does positivistic come from?: Etymology tree English positivist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English positivistic From positivist + -ic.

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