situationism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A school of thought which holds that personality is more influenced by external factors than by internal traits or motivations.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A mid-20th-century offshoot of Marxism, influenced by avant-garde art movements.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The situationists meant to define a stance, not an ideology, because they saw all ideologies as alienations, transformations of subjectivity into objectivity, desire into a power that rendered the individual powerless: “There is no such thing as situationism,” they said for years."
Etymology
Etymology tree English situation Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English situationism From situation + -ism.
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