Meaning of Spockish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Resembling or characteristic of the Star Trek character Mr. Spock, especially in being excessively logical and emotionless.
2. Characteristic of Benjamin Spock (1903–1998), American pediatrician who introduced elements of psychoanalysis into childcare.

Examples

“Gary Oldman is pale with pale blue eyes and Spockish ears.”

“In the early shows, Leonard Nimoy and the various writers and directors struggled to find the Spockish response to emotionally charged situations.”

“Rather like the Spockish character Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation, psychology is coming to appreciate the power and virtues of emotions in mental life, as well as their dangers.”

“It is not driven by the fiction of optimization in the manner of Dr.^([sic]) Spock in Star Trek―obsessively using high-tech logic tools. Such a Spockish approach often tends to mis-characterize the nature of the problem when the environment is complex, turbulent and evolving.”

“Circumcision of the goyim would not become the pediatric norm in America until the Spockish 1950's.”

“And the two of us, I already a bit refreshed perhaps by an hour's sleep, Harry longing for a touch of baby skin, would conspire to break the Spockish law and sneak him across the hall to spend some time with us in bed.”

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