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apologia

US/ˌæp.əˈloʊ.d͡ʒi.ə/

apologia noun: a written defense of a position or belief.

Noun

apologia (plural apologias or apologiae)

  1. A written defense of a position or belief.
    • Although I've enumerated some of the academic traditions and debates that have animated this book, it is not my purpose to offer a full apologia in these brief pages.1999, Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, Preface
    • “Gone With the Wind” was published in 1936, and despite heroic efforts over the last seven decades to transform it into something else, the novel stands as an apologia for the Old South — […]2007 November 4, Stephen L. Carter, “Almost a Gentleman”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    apology, apologism

apologia meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

apologia in Urdu

معذرت نامہ

apologia in Malayalam

defence, justification, vindication
ഔപചാരികമായി എഴുതിക്കൊടുക്കുന്ന സമാധാനം, സാധൂകരണം, നിരപരാധിയെന്നു തെളിയിക്കൽ, നീതീകരണം, പ്രത്യുത്തരം, ന്യായീകരണം

Synonyms of apologia

Forms of apologia

pluralapologias
pluralapologiae

Origin of apologia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología, “speech in defense of a position”). Doublet of apology.

Questions about apologia

What does apologia mean?
Apologia means a written defense of a position or belief.
What is apologia in Urdu?
Apologia in Urdu is معذرت نامہ. See Apologia meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is apologia?
Apologia is a noun.
How do you pronounce apologia?
Apologia is pronounced /ˌæp.əˈloʊ.d͡ʒi.ə/ (US).
What is the plural of apologia?
The plural of apologia is apologias.

Words near apologia in the dictionary

  1. apologeticisms
  2. apologetick
  3. apologeticness
  4. apologetics
  5. apologetism
  6. apologia
  7. apologiae
  8. apologian
  9. apologians
  10. apologias
  11. apological

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: apologia (page history and authors); apologia (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); apologia (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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