Transworld

adj

adj ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Spanning possible worlds.

    "But it doesn't really come to the same thing, because the usual notion of a criterion of transworld identity demands that we give purely qualitative necessary and sufficient conditions for someone being Nixon."

Example

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"But it doesn't really come to the same thing, because the usual notion of a criterion of transworld identity demands that we give purely qualitative necessary and sufficient conditions for someone being Nixon."

Etymology

From trans- + world.

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