Wellsean

adj, noun

adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

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 utopias"

Adjective

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."
2
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)."

"The extension of such a rigid word as morality, until it includes its own contradictions, is typically Wellsean."

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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