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Borgesian

Borgesian adjective: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Jorge Luis Borges or his writings.

Adjective

Borgesian (comparative more Borgesian, superlative most Borgesian)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Jorge Luis Borges or his writings.
    • Stories now tend to be either Chekhovian or Borgesian; only rarely are they both.2001, Harold Bloom, How to read and why, →ISBN, page 57
    • The Borgesian revelation of understanding has not and will not — and, we submit, cannot — occur if machine learning programs like ChatGPT continue to dominate the field of A.I.2023 March 8, Noam Chomsky, Ian Roberts, Jeffrey Watumull, “The False Promise of ChatGPT”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of Borgesian

comparativemore Borgesian
superlativemost Borgesian

Origin of Borgesian

From Borges + -ian.

Phrases with Borgesian

Questions about Borgesian

What does Borgesian mean?
Borgesian means of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Jorge Luis Borges or his writings.
What part of speech is Borgesian?
Borgesian is an adjective.

Words near Borgesian in the dictionary

  1. Borgerding
  2. Borgerdings
  3. Borgers
  4. Borges
  5. Borgeses
  6. Borgesian
  7. Borgesian libraries
  8. Borgesian library
  9. Borgeson
  10. Borgesons
  11. Borggreve rotation

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