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metaphysics

met·a·phys·ics
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    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [met-uh-fiz-iks]
    • /ˌmɛt əˈfɪz ɪks/
    • /ˌmet.əˈfɪz.ɪks/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [met-uh-fiz-iks]
    • /ˌmɛt əˈfɪz ɪks/

Definitions of metaphysics word

  • abbreviation METAPHYSICS metaphysics. 1
  • abbreviation METAPHYSICS metaphysical. 1
  • noun metaphysics (philosophy, uncountable) The branch of philosophy which studies fundamental principles intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by anything more fundamental; the study of first principles; the study of being insofar as it is being (ens in quantum ens). 1
  • noun metaphysics philosophy 1
  • uncountable noun metaphysics Metaphysics is a part of philosophy which is concerned with understanding reality and developing theories about what exists and how we know that it exists. 0
  • noun metaphysics the branch of philosophy that deals with first principles, esp of being and knowing 0
See all 13 definitions of metaphysics

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Origin of metaphysics

First appearance:

before 1560
One of the 32% oldest English words
1560-70; < Medieval Latin metaphysica < Medieval Greek (tà) metaphysiká (neuter plural), Greek tà metà tà physiká the (works) after the Physics; with reference to the arrangement of Aristotle's writings

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Parts of speech for Metaphysics

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Full grammatical hierarchy of Metaphysics

metaphysics popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 90% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for metaphysics

noun metaphysics

  • system — an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system.
  • thought — Informal. the act or a period of thinking: I want to sit down and give it a good think.
  • outlook — the view or prospect from a particular place.
  • theory — a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity. Synonyms: principle, law, doctrine.
  • viewpoint — a place affording a view of something; position of observation: to sketch a river from the viewpoint of a bluff.
All 27 Synonyms of metaphysics

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Related words

  • ontology

    the branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being as such.

  • egotism

    The practice of talking and thinking about oneself excessively because of an undue sense of self-importance.

  • logical positivism

    a philosophical movement that stresses the function of philosophy as a method of criticizing and analyzing science and that rejects all transcendental metaphysics, statements of fact being held to be meaningful only if they have verifiable consequences in experience and in statements of logic, mathematics, or philosophy itself, and with such statements of fact deriving their validity from the rules of language.

  • metaph

    metaphor

  • monad

    Biology. any simple, single-celled organism. any of various small, flagellate, colorless ameboids with one to three flagella, especially of the genus Monas.

  • ontological

    of or relating to ontology, the branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being as such; metaphysical: Some of the U.S. founders held an ontological belief in natural rights.
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