Meaning of esemplastic | Babel Free
ɛsɛmˈplæstɪkDefinitions
Unifying; having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole.
not-comparable
Examples
“1893: all the verses when taken together … are deficient in harmony, and consequently there is little or no fusion. The esemplastic power of the writer's feeling was not strong enough, did not extend⟳ beyond the individual verse. — Hiram Corson, A Primer of English Verse (pp. 21–22)”
“2003: he … developed a doctrine of the organic (‘esemplastic’) imagination, over and against the passive and mechanical faculty of ‘fancy’ — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason⟳ (Penguin 2004, p. 405)”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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