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mathesis

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/məˈθiːsɪs/ (UK)
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/məˈθiːsɪs/ (UK) · /ˈmaθəsɪs/ (UK)

Definition of mathesis

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Mental calculation or discipline; science, especially mathematical learning.
    “Forget the Boys, forget your loyalties to your Dead, first of all to Rebekah, for she, they, are but distractions, temporal, flesh, ever attempting to drag the Uranian Devotee back down out of his realm of pure Mathesis, of that which abides.”
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noun

  1. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Mental calculation or discipline; science, especially mathematical learning.
    “Forget the Boys, forget your loyalties to your Dead, first of all to Rebekah, for she, they, are but distractions, temporal, flesh, ever attempting to drag the Uranian Devotee back down out of his realm of pure Mathesis, of that which abides.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)The science of establishing a systematic order for things. (After Foucault.)
    “1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN I’m using 'mathesis' — a universal science of measurement and order […]”

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Etymology

From Anglo-Norman mathesis, Middle French mathesie, and their source, Late Latin mathesis (“astrology, liberal arts, science”), from Ancient Greek μάθησις (máthēsis, “learning”), from the same base as μανθάνω (manthánō, “to learn”).

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