spinozism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.18 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The philosophical doctrine of Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) and his followers.
Example Sentences
- "A common weapon against Cartesians in those latter days was an accusation of Spinozism."
- "But of course Spinozism in an empiricist mode is Spinozism with a considerable difference, as ethics written in Hume's preferred nonabstruse style (and increasingly nonabstruse from Treatise to Essays and Enquiries) sets a different tone from ethics in ordine geometrico."
- "Monism, as characterized here, seems to be a commitment both of Spinoza and of variants of Spinozism influential in Germany in the 1780s and 90s."