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dialectical

adj

Etymology

From Latin dialecticus + -al. By surface analysis, dialectic + -al or dialect + -ical.

  1. derived from dialecticus + -al

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to dialectic

    Of or pertaining to dialectic; (in philosophy) logically reasoned through the exchange of opposing ideas.

    • Sure, maybe. We know — have long known — that romanticism and fatalism are dialectical lovers.

  2. Synonym of dialectal (“of or pertaining to a dialect”).

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Derived

dialectical behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, dialectical behavioural therapy, dialectical behaviour therapy, dialecticalisation, dialecticalization, dialectical materialism, dialectical method, nondialectical, undialectical

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