Musilesque
Musilesque adjective: resembling the lack of inner convictions described by Robert Musil in the title character of his unfinished novel The Man Without Qualities.
Adjective
Musilesque (comparative more Musilesque, superlative most Musilesque)
- Resembling the lack of inner convictions described by Robert Musil in the title character of his unfinished novel The Man Without Qualities.
- It is a position-taking which must avoid the other extreme: the Musilesque situation, in which man founders on the unlivable ideal of an exact, scientific practice of life, which ideal cannot guide practice (E. Heintel, K.-O. Apel).1968, Gerard Radnitzky, Contemporary Schools of Metascience - Volume 1, page 148
- For one thing, the very fact that Marcel possesses, and unwittingly betrays, an idiosyncratic point of view—the fact that Proust has opted to present him as a decidedly un-Musilesque “man with qualities,” endowing him with a series of propositions and dispositions that map his "world" —tells us...2004, Joshua Landy, Philosophy As Fiction, page 141
Forms of Musilesque
| comparative | more Musilesque |
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| superlative | most Musilesque |
Origin of Musilesque
From Musil + -esque.
Questions about Musilesque
- What does Musilesque mean?
- Musilesque means resembling the lack of inner convictions described by Robert Musil in the title character of his unfinished novel The Man Without Qualities.
- What part of speech is Musilesque?
- Musilesque is an adjective.
Words near Musilesque in the dictionary
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