dilemmaticity

noun

Etymology

From dilemmatic + -ity.

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being dilemmatic

    The state or quality of being dilemmatic; problematicalness.

    • The shift in ethical thinking that would result from ethicists' attention to patterns of dilemmaticity is one part of what seems like a promising, larger shift from ideal(ized) (and alienating) theory to non-idealizing ethical thinking.
    • However, in systemically or institutionally constraining what would otherwise be good, morally endorsable possibilities, the phenomenon of oppression spawns what I take to be a special, systemic sort of dilemmaticity.
  2. A dilemma.

    • All attempts to exorcise the Devil based on a monotheistic outlook will ultimately reinforce the categories that produce Brazil's dilemmaticity and, thus, reproduce the conditions for the Devil's reappearance.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dilemmaticity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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