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nomothetics

nomothetics noun: system defining laws or rules.

Noun

nomothetics (countable and uncountable, plural nomothetics)

  1. (rare) system defining laws or rules
    • The antimony that reveals itself in the application of the law is for our limited wisdom the best way to test nomothetics[.]1999, Kant (Guyer and Wood trans.), Critique of Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press.

Forms of nomothetics

pluralnomothetics

Origin of nomothetics

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νομοθετικός (nomothetikós).

Questions about nomothetics

What does nomothetics mean?
Nomothetics means system defining laws or rules.
What part of speech is nomothetics?
Nomothetics is a noun.
What is the plural of nomothetics?
The plural of nomothetics is nomothetics.

Words near nomothetics in the dictionary

  1. nomothete
  2. nomothetes
  3. nomothetic
  4. nomothetical
  5. nomothetically
  6. nomothetics
  7. nomotreme
  8. nomoxic
  9. nompC
  10. noms
  11. noms d'artiste

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