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McLuhanian

McLuhanian adjective: of or relating to Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), Canadian educator and philosopher, known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".

Adjective

McLuhanian (comparative more McLuhanian, superlative most McLuhanian)

  1. Of or relating to Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), Canadian educator and philosopher, known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".
    • Psychoanalytic and neoanalytic egopsychology represents a subjectivist counterpoint to McLuhanian posthumanism, and indeed, Americana is written within the confluence of both psychoanalytic and McLuhanian schools of thought.2010, Randy Laist, Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo's Novels, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 19

Forms of McLuhanian

comparativemore McLuhanian
superlativemost McLuhanian

Origin of McLuhanian

From McLuhan + -ian.

Questions about McLuhanian

What does McLuhanian mean?
McLuhanian means of or relating to Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), Canadian educator and philosopher, known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".
What part of speech is McLuhanian?
McLuhanian is an adjective.

Words near McLuhanian in the dictionary

  1. McLucases
  2. McLuckie
  3. McLuckies
  4. McLuhan
  5. McLuhanesque
  6. McLuhanian
  7. McLuhanism
  8. McLuhanist
  9. McLuhanists
  10. McLuhanite
  11. McLuhanites

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