utraquisms

Noun

utraquism (countable and uncountable, plural utraquisms)

1. The combination of two methods or fields of study.
   • The utraquism of our gymnasia, which try to combine with traditional teaching of the ancient languages instruction in the modern sciences and the modern languages, cannot be permanently maintained.1887, Friedrich Paulsen, “The Concluding Chapter of Paulsen’s History of the Higher Education at the German Schools and Universities […] ”, in Samuel Thurber, transl., The Academy: A Journal of...
2. (specifically) A method that uses analogy to draw on insights from both objective natural science on the one hand, and subjective psychology and social science on the other.
   • One of [Sándor Ferenczi's] most productive epistemological ideas is that of utraquism[…]Derived from the Latin utraque, meaning 'one and the other', utraquism is the work of establishing relationships of analogy between distinct elements that belong to distinct fields of knowledge and strata of...2018, Raluca Soreanu, Working-through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising, Palgrave Macmillan, page 37
3. (countable, rare) A term, phrase, or concept with multiple meanings.
   • European thought and Indian thought tend to approach the problems of human existence from opposite directions. This affects word formations. And so double meanings (utraquisms, puns, and metaphors) and etymological links often follow quite different tracks[…]1956, Visuddhimagga, translated by Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu, Path of Purification, page lii

   Synonyms:

   double entendre

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