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Rashomonic

Rashomonic adjective: involving multiple contradictory accounts.

Adjective

Rashomonic (comparative more Rashomonic, superlative most Rashomonic)

  1. Involving multiple contradictory accounts.

Forms of Rashomonic

comparativemore Rashomonic
superlativemost Rashomonic

Origin of Rashomonic

After Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon (1950), in which a crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways; + -ic.

Questions about Rashomonic

What does Rashomonic mean?
Rashomonic means involving multiple contradictory accounts.
What part of speech is Rashomonic?
Rashomonic is an adjective.

Words near Rashomonic in the dictionary

  1. rashness
  2. rashnesses
  3. Rashomon
  4. Rashomon effect
  5. Rashomon effects
  6. Rashomonic
  7. Rashpoot
  8. Rashpoots
  9. Rasht
  10. Rashti
  11. Rashtrapati

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