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dilemmaticity en · NOUN

Etymology

From dilemmatic + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (no-plural, rare) The state or quality of being dilemmatic; problematicalness.
    • However, in systemically or institutionally constraining what would otherwise be good, morally endorsable possibilities, the phenomenon of oppression spawns what I take to be a special, systemic sort of dilemmaticity. 2016, Lisa Tessman, Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality, Oxford University Press, page 180
    • The shift in ethical thinking that would result from ethicists' attention to patterns of dilemmaticity is one part of what seems like a promising, larger shift from ideal(ized) (and alienating) theory to non-idealizing ethical thinking. 2012, George Yancy, The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy, Lexington Books - A Division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, INC. - Lanham • Boulder • New York • Toronto • Plymouth, UK, page 204
  2. (no-plural, rare) A dilemma.
    • All attempts to exorcise the Devil based on a monotheistic outlook will ultimately reinforce the categories that produce Brazil's dilemmaticity and, thus, reproduce the conditions for the Devil's reappearance. 2008, Mark Mazower, Networks of Power in Modern Greece: Essays in Honour of John Campbell, Hurst & Company, page 250