Near-synonyms: exegetic, exegetical
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Hermeneutic
//ˌhɜː.məˈn(j)uː.tɪk//
Synonyms for "hermeneutic" (7 found)
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Closest matches (2)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (3)
Adjective(2 words)
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7 entriesderived
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4 entriesTranslations
22 translations across 17 languages.
Aragonese
1 entries- hermeneutico adj (that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates a text)
Asturian
1 entries- hermenéuticu adj (that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates a text)
Bulgarian
2 entries- обяснителен adj (that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates a text)
- тълкувателен adj (that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates a text)
Catalan
2 entries- hermenèutic adj (that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates a text)
- hermenèutica noun (particular theory of hermeneutics)
Danish
1 entries- hermeneutisk adj (that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates a text)
Dutch
1 entries- hermeneutisch adj (that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates a text)
Esperanto
1 entries- hermeneŭtika adj (that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates a text)
Finnish
1 entries- hermeneuttinen adj (that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates a text)
French
1 entries- herméneutique adj (that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates a text)
Galician
1 entries- hermenéutico adj (that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates a text)
German
1 entries- hermeneutisch adj (that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates a text)
Italian
1 entries- ermeneutico adj (that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates a text)
Polish
1 entries- hermeneutyczny adj (that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates a text)
Portuguese
2 entries- hermenêutico adj (that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates a text)
- hermenêutica noun (particular theory of hermeneutics)
Romanian
2 entries- ermeneutic adj (that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates a text)
- hermeneutic adj (that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates a text)
Spanish
2 entries- hermenéutico adj (that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates a text)
- hermenéutica noun (particular theory of hermeneutics)
Swedish
1 entries- hermeneutisk adj (that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates a text)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Following the goal of surrealist automatic writing, the sheer richness of this dream imagery blurs the border between oneirography and fiction—the tawdry colonials, the sign of the alluring woman, the writing lesson, the papyrus turban, the disguised charlatan's reverie, the ecstasy of signification, writing both conscious and unconscious, poetic and hermeneutic, text and mirror, "langage tangage" (Leiris 1985⁹)—composing a narrative philosophy of cross-cultural existence.
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The hermeneutics of suspicion needs to be balanced by a hermeneutic that is grounded in the recognition that written texts represent valid expressions of their author's intent, and that principles may be established that would guide the reader to that intent.
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