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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)

  1. 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

comparativemore Musilesque
superlativemost 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

  1. musiczine
  2. musiczines
  3. musiform
  4. Musiiky
  5. Musil
  6. Musilesque
  7. musimon
  8. musimons
  9. Musina
  10. musing
  11. musingly

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