English words for 'Metaphysics.'
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noun
prefix
- Having analogies with metaphysics.
- (anatomy and zoology) Behind.
- (chemistry) Having fewer molecules of water than the ortho- equivalent.
- (organic chemistry) in isomeric benzene derivatives, having the two substituents in alternate (1,3) positions; contrasted with ortho- and para-.
- (geology) Modified by metamorphosis; analogies and derivatives of metamorphism.
- (pathology) Consequent on.
- Pertaining to a level above or beyond; reflexive or recursive; about itself or about other things of the same type. For example, metadata is data that describes data, metalanguage is language that describes language, etc.
- (biochemistry) Relating to metabolism.
- (botany and zoology) Later or subsequent.
- Transcending, encompassing.
adj
- Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics.
- Not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.
- Religious; relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular
- (followed by the preposition "to") Consecrated; dedicated; devoted
- Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated, made holy.
- Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.
- concerned with religion or religious purposes
- (often followed by ‘to’) devoted exclusively to a single use or purpose or person
- worthy of religious veneration
- made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use
- worthy of respect or dedication
verb
noun
- plural of metaphysic
- (philosophy, uncountable) The branch of philosophy which studies fundamental principles intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by anything more fundamental; the study of first principles; the study of being insofar as it is being (Latin: ens in quantum ens).
- (logic, uncountable, by extension from the philosophical sense) The metalogic of physics; the logical framework of physics.
- (uncountable, by extension from the philosophical sense) Any fundamental principles or rules.
- (philosophy, countable) The view or theory of a particular philosopher or school of thinkers concerning the first principles which describe or explain all that is.
- (uncountable, derogatory) Displeasingly abstruse, complex material on any subject.
- (uncountable) The study of a supersensual realm or of phenomena which transcend the physical world.
- the philosophical study of being and knowing
noun
- (metaphysics) The subject; one who experiences.
- An attendee; one who attends a course, meeting, school, etc.
- An attendant; one who attends to someone or something.
- someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- a person who is present and participates in a meeting
- someone who listens attentively
adj
noun
- (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
- the accumulation of blood in an organ
- the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene
- (linguistics) A relationship between a name and a known quantity, as a cultural personification (i.e. objectification with personality) of an entity or quality.
- Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.
- (theology) The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his two ‘natures’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (sharing a single ‘essence’).
- (psychology) Referring to the hypostatic model of personality; i.e., asserting that humans present themselves in many different aspects or hypostases, depending on the internal and external realities they relate to, including different approaches to the study of personality.
- (philosophy) The underlying reality or substance of something.
- (genetics) The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.
noun
- (metaphysics) The doctrine that reality is created or shaped by the mind.
- (ethics) The doctrine that values and moral principles come from attitudes, convention, whim, or preference.
- (epistemology) The doctrine that knowledge is based in feelings or intuition.
- (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge and value are dependent on and limited by your subjective experience
- the quality of being subjective
noun
- (metaphysics) A belief in the existence of all possible entities including past and future things or unactualised possibilities.
- (creationism) The rejection of creationism in all its forms (including intelligent design) and the assertion that evolution alone is responsible for the diversity of all living creatures.
adj
- (metaphysics) Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes.
- Of, or relating to a mode or modus.
- (graphical user interface) Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.
- (music) Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical — music.
- (computing) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
- (logic) Of, or relating to the modality between propositions.
- (of music, by extension) In a mode which is not major or minor scale, the standard modes used in the Western musical tradition.
- (statistics) Relating to the statistical mode.
- (grammar) Of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.
- relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
- relating to or expressing the mood of a verb
- of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode
noun
- (fabric) A semi-synthetic fabric, a very soft kind of rayon textile made from beech tree pulp and processed with chemicals.
- (grammar) A modal verb.
- (graphical user interface) A modal window, one that cannot be closed until a decision is made.
- (logic) A modal proposition.
- (linguistics) A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary.
- an auxiliary verb (such as ‘can’ or ‘will’) that is used to express modality
noun
- (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
- (colloquial, as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
- (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- (music) Ellipsis of harmonic limit.
- (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
- (poker) Fixed limit.
- the boundary of a specific area
- the greatest possible degree of something
- final or latest limiting point
- the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed
- as far as something can go
- the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity
adj
verb
noun
- (philosophy, metaphysics) A universe in which all of the actions of matter and energy operate as reactions according to predetermined rules set down by a creator, like the movements of a clock.
- the view that the universe resembles a clock built by God and ticking along according to Newtonian mechanics
verb
noun
noun
noun
- plural of metaphysic
- (philosophy, uncountable) The branch of philosophy which studies fundamental principles intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by anything more fundamental; the study of first principles; the study of being insofar as it is being (Latin: ens in quantum ens).
- (logic, uncountable, by extension from the philosophical sense) The metalogic of physics; the logical framework of physics.
- (uncountable, by extension from the philosophical sense) Any fundamental principles or rules.
- (philosophy, countable) The view or theory of a particular philosopher or school of thinkers concerning the first principles which describe or explain all that is.
- (uncountable, derogatory) Displeasingly abstruse, complex material on any subject.
- (uncountable) The study of a supersensual realm or of phenomena which transcend the physical world.
- the philosophical study of being and knowing
noun
- (metaphysics) The subject; one who experiences.
- An attendee; one who attends a course, meeting, school, etc.
- An attendant; one who attends to someone or something.
- someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- a person who is present and participates in a meeting
- someone who listens attentively
noun
- (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
- the accumulation of blood in an organ
- the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene
- (linguistics) A relationship between a name and a known quantity, as a cultural personification (i.e. objectification with personality) of an entity or quality.
- Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.
- (theology) The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his two ‘natures’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (sharing a single ‘essence’).
- (psychology) Referring to the hypostatic model of personality; i.e., asserting that humans present themselves in many different aspects or hypostases, depending on the internal and external realities they relate to, including different approaches to the study of personality.
- (philosophy) The underlying reality or substance of something.
- (genetics) The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.
noun
- (metaphysics) The doctrine that reality is created or shaped by the mind.
- (ethics) The doctrine that values and moral principles come from attitudes, convention, whim, or preference.
- (epistemology) The doctrine that knowledge is based in feelings or intuition.
- (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge and value are dependent on and limited by your subjective experience
- the quality of being subjective
noun
- (metaphysics) A belief in the existence of all possible entities including past and future things or unactualised possibilities.
- (creationism) The rejection of creationism in all its forms (including intelligent design) and the assertion that evolution alone is responsible for the diversity of all living creatures.
noun
- (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
- (colloquial, as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
- (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- (music) Ellipsis of harmonic limit.
- (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
- (poker) Fixed limit.
- the boundary of a specific area
- the greatest possible degree of something
- final or latest limiting point
- the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed
- as far as something can go
- the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity
adj
verb
noun
- (philosophy, metaphysics) A universe in which all of the actions of matter and energy operate as reactions according to predetermined rules set down by a creator, like the movements of a clock.
- the view that the universe resembles a clock built by God and ticking along according to Newtonian mechanics
verb
noun
adj
- Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics.
- Not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.
- Religious; relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular
- (followed by the preposition "to") Consecrated; dedicated; devoted
- Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated, made holy.
- Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.
- concerned with religion or religious purposes
- (often followed by ‘to’) devoted exclusively to a single use or purpose or person
- worthy of religious veneration
- made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use
- worthy of respect or dedication
verb
adj
adj
- (metaphysics) Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes.
- Of, or relating to a mode or modus.
- (graphical user interface) Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.
- (music) Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical — music.
- (computing) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
- (logic) Of, or relating to the modality between propositions.
- (of music, by extension) In a mode which is not major or minor scale, the standard modes used in the Western musical tradition.
- (statistics) Relating to the statistical mode.
- (grammar) Of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.
- relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
- relating to or expressing the mood of a verb
- of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode
noun
- (fabric) A semi-synthetic fabric, a very soft kind of rayon textile made from beech tree pulp and processed with chemicals.
- (grammar) A modal verb.
- (graphical user interface) A modal window, one that cannot be closed until a decision is made.
- (logic) A modal proposition.
- (linguistics) A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary.
- an auxiliary verb (such as ‘can’ or ‘will’) that is used to express modality