Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

subsentential

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sub-sen-ten-tial
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Less than a sentence.

Example Sentences

"This looks like a candidate for a subsentential logical form and there may be various other cases of embedded fragments which have subsentential logical forms (appositional noun phrases, for instance)."
"Quine makes this claim at two levels: the level of whole sentences, and the level of subsentential expressions. At the level of subsentential expressions the claim is known as the thesis of the inscrutability of reference."

Etymology

From sub- + sentential.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: sub

Questions

What does subsentential mean?: Less than a sentence.
Where does subsentential come from?: From sub- + sentential.

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