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definitioneering

noun

Etymology

Blend of definition + engineering or from definition + -eer + -ing

  1. derived from ingegniere — “engineer”
  2. derived from engigneour
  3. derived from ingénieur
  4. derived from *ǵenh₁-✻ — “to beget, give birth to; to produce”
  5. derived from ingenium — “innate or natural quality, nature; intelligence, natural capacity; ability, skill, talent; (Medieval Latin) engine; machine”
  6. derived from engigneor
  7. derived from enginour
  8. inherited from enginour — “one who designs, constructs, or operates military works for attack or defence, etc.; machine designer”
  9. suffixed as engineering — “engineer + ing”
  10. compounded as definitioneering — “definition + engineering”

Definitions

  1. The act of creating, usually by making up, definitions.

    • Are we entitled to so define, or is Hook bogged down in a form of "persuasive definitioneering"?
    • ...danger is that we may become bogged down in 'definitioneering'; that is, we may become advocates of special definitions that are arbitrarily stipulated.
    • Makkonen argues that the rationale of the rights concerned should always be taken as a point of departure, rather than an attempt at a priori 'definitioneering'.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA