Word.ws English Dictionary

Cixousian

Cixousian adjective: of or relating to Hélène Cixous (born 1937), French feminist writer, philosopher, and literary critic.

Adjective

Cixousian (comparative more Cixousian, superlative most Cixousian)

  1. Of or relating to Hélène Cixous (born 1937), French feminist writer, philosopher, and literary critic.
    • Worsham understands that Junker needs to validate Cixousian theory through composition pedagogy in order for her, like other compositionists, to find it to be a useful theory.1997, Sidney I. Dobrin, Constructing Knowledges
    • The Cixousian sentence is manipulated from back to front by its intrinsic infinity: the sentence is no longer a logical unit, a synthetic entity, a pause in the concept, but a stream with no banks or external constraints[…]2005, Lee A. Jacobus, Regina Barreca, Hélène Cixous: Critical Impressions, page 81

Forms of Cixousian

comparativemore Cixousian
superlativemost Cixousian

Origin of Cixousian

From Cixous + -ian.

Questions about Cixousian

What does Cixousian mean?
Cixousian means of or relating to Hélène Cixous (born 1937), French feminist writer, philosopher, and literary critic.
What part of speech is Cixousian?
Cixousian is an adjective.

Words near Cixousian in the dictionary

  1. CIWS
  2. ciwujianoside
  3. Cixi
  4. cixiid
  5. cixiids
  6. Cixousian
  7. cixutumumab
  8. cizars
  9. cize
  10. Cizek
  11. Cizeks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Cixousian (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Cixousian.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cixousian. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.