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Wellsean

Wellsean adjective: of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of H. G. Wells, an English writer.

Adjective (1)

Wellsean (comparative more Wellsean, superlative most Wellsean)

  1. Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of H. G. Wells, an English writer.
    • The extension of such a rigid word as morality, until it includes its own contradictions, is typically Wellsean.1916, John Freeman, “H. G. Wells”, in The Moderns, page 93
    • In this way, Wilde develops a Wellsean utopian scheme to “better the interplay”: a scheme to recover the connection between the self and others, allowing individuals to counter aestheticism’s drive to wholeness and to grow and change as art does.2017, Annette Magid, Quintessentially Wilde, page 238

Noun

Wellsean (plural Wellseans)

  1. An admirer of H. G. Wells.
  2. One who writes in the manner or style of H. G. Wells, or whose writing treats topics associated with Wells.
    • Post-Wellseans have sometimes made the alternatives more concurrent. Herbert Read in The Green Child (1935) presented as simultaneous in time two contrasting utopias1988, Kingsley Widmer, Counterings: Utopian Dialectics in Contemporary Contexts, page 42

Adjective (2)

Wellsean

  1. Having a structure within which both polygonality and connectivity are fractional.
    • The unit cell contains a single 8-connected cube-centered vertex, six 4-connected distorted square planar vertices and eight 4-connected distorted tetrahedral vertices. It is a Wellsean structure with a Wells point symbol given by (468)(48)(48) and a Schläfli symbol of (5, 4.2667).2002, Michael J. Bucknum, “Jubilite: A 4-,8-Connected Cubic Structural Pattern in Space Group Pm3”, in Chemistry Preprint Archive, page 138

Forms of Wellsean

Adjective
comparativemore Wellsean
superlativemost Wellsean
alternative formWellsian
Noun
pluralWellseans

Origin of Wellsean

From the surname of English author H. G. Wells, plus the suffix -ean, which forms adjectives from proper names.

From the surname of chemist A. F. Wells, plus the suffix -ean, which forms adjectives from proper names.

Questions about Wellsean

What does Wellsean mean?
Wellsean means of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of H. G. Wells, an English writer.
What part of speech is Wellsean?
Wellsean can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Wellsean in the dictionary

  1. Wells-next-the-Sea
  2. Wellsboro
  3. Wellsburg
  4. wellscreen
  5. wellscreens
  6. Wellsean
  7. Wellseans
  8. Wellsford
  9. Wellsian
  10. Wellsians
  11. wellside

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