esemplastic

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
21
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ɛsɛmˈplæstɪk/

Definition of esemplastic

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Unifying; having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole.
    “1893: all the verses when taken together … are deficient in harmony, and consequently there is little or no fusion. The esemplastic power of the writer's feeling was not strong enough, did not extend beyond the individual verse. — Hiram Corson, A Primer of English Verse (pp. 21–22)”
    “2003: he … developed a doctrine of the organic (‘esemplastic’) imagination, over and against the passive and mechanical faculty of ‘fancy’ — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 405)”

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Etymology

From Greek ἐς ‘into’ + ἕν + πλαστικός (from πλάσσειν ‘to mould’). Coined by Coleridge, probably after German ineinsbildung ‘forming into one’.

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