archetypal

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Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
21
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈɑːkɪtaɪpəl/
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/ˈɑːkɪtaɪpəl/ · /ˈɑɹkɪtaɪpəl/

Definition of archetypal

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Of or pertaining to an archetype.
    “In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg and in his inaugural lecture made a pronouncement that earned him a reputation as an archetypal metaphysician with his claim that our awareness of people as a whole depends on our experience of dread in the face of nothingness.”

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Etymology

From archetype + -al.

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