Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

primordial soup

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English

Syllables: pri-mor-dial -soup
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history, during the early development of multicellular organisms.

Countable; Informal; Uncountable

noun

A collection of ideas or objects that become refined over time.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"While the number of ideas floating in this primordial soup is quite large , only a few ever receive serious consideration."
"Freud would place in this primordial soup Eros and Thanatos, the tensions between life and death instincts; Jung would stress identification with universal archetypes."

Usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Biology, Geology.

Inflected Forms

primordial soups (plural)

Phrases

primordial sea primordial ocean primordial ooze

Frequently Paired Words

primordial sea primordial ocean primordial ooze

Questions

What does primordial soup mean?: The state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history, during the early development of multicellular organisms.

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