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apodictism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /apəʊˈdɪktɪzm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /apəʊˈdaɪktɪzm/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From apodict(ic) + -ism.

Meanings

1. (rare, uncountable, usually) Apodictic character, tendency, or pretension.
   • It is my conviction that the evident stiffness and apodictism of the definitions cited was already predetermined. 1976, Z. Bauman, Socialism, page 50:
   • In spite of the apodeictism of these statements, Foucault never articulates a fully coherent position on sexual repression. 2002, C.O. Schrag, edited by M.J. Matuštík and W.L. McBride, Calvin O. Schrag and the Task of Philosophy after Postmodernity, page 71:
   • Dogmatic apodictism is essentially characteristic of faith. 1989, G. Florovsky, translated by R.S. Haugh, Ecumenism I, page 74:
   • His sincerity, bordering on naïvete, may explain his inability to approach people…and even a certain apodictism. 1979, Le Théâtre en Pologne, XXI:vii-xii, page 22:
   • When it comes to writers like Prlichev, there can and should be room in both the Greek and Bulgarian, and Macedonian literary history. Naturally, not in the same way and not with the equal apodictism in determining their national attribution. 1999, The Macedonian Times, LI-LXII, page 136/1:
2. (countable, rare, usually) An apodictic assertion or pronouncement; a strong, unwarranted claim.
   • That phytogeography of today is a “confused hodgepodge of theory and half-baked notions”…is yet another example of Croizat’s apodictisms. 1954, H.J. Lam, “Antarctica: The Cradle of Angiosperms?”, in Vegetatio, IV, № 6, page 431:

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