esemplastic
/ɛsɛmˈplæstɪk/
esemplastic adjective: unifying; having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole.
Adjective
esemplastic (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)
esemplastic meaning in Bengali
esemplastic in Bengali
- একীভূতকারী
Origin of esemplastic
From Greek ἐς ‘into’ + ἕν + πλαστικός (from πλάσσειν ‘to mould’). Coined by Coleridge, probably after German ineinsbildung ‘forming into one’.
Words formed from esemplastic
Words that rhyme with esemplastic
- plastic
- elastic
- fantastic
- bombastic
- mastic
- spastic
- heteroplastic
- inelastic
- periphrastic
- pleonastic
- aclastic
- alloplastic
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- anaclastic
- anaplastic
- anticlastic
- aplastic
- autoplastic
- basiplastic
- ceroplastic
- chiastic
- clastic
- cosmoplastic
- drastic
- encomiastic
- enthusiastic
- epispastic
- gelastic
- gymnastic
- heteroblastic
- holophrastic
- homoblastic
- homoplastic
- macroplastic
- normoplastic
- onomastic
- paraphrastic
- sarcastic
- synclastic
- achondroplastic
- agelastic
- antineoplastic
- antiphrastic
- antispastic
- apicoplastic
- autoschediastic
- cataclastic
- chiliastic
- conplastic
- cranioplastic
- docimastic
- dramastic
- dynastic
- dysplastic
- ecclesiastic
- ectoblastic
- ectoplastic
- electroplastic
- emplastic
- epiblastic
- epinastic
Questions about esemplastic
- What does esemplastic mean?
- Esemplastic means unifying; having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole.
- What is esemplastic in Bengali?
- Esemplastic in Bengali is একীভূতকারী. See Esemplastic meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is esemplastic?
- Esemplastic is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce esemplastic?
- Esemplastic is pronounced /ɛsɛmˈplæstɪk/.
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