tabula rasa
noun/ˈtæbjʊlə ˈɹɑːzə/
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin tabula rāsa (literally “erased tablet”), where the collocation comprised tabula (“wax-covered writing tablet”, noun) + rāsa, feminine singular of rāsus (“scraped, erased, cleaned (of text)”, participial adjective).
Definitions
A mind, as of a newborn, free of any impressions, notions, ideas, etc.
- Near-synonym: clean slate
Anything which exists in a pristine state.
- Near-synonyms: clean slate, blank slate
- In his quest for rehabilitation, Connally is counting on the newspapers' behaving as they normally do: becoming tabulae rasae every 24 hours.
- Facebook was a “tabula rasa with carte blanche”, [Yann] LeCun says. “Money was clearly not going to be a problem.”
The neighborhood
- neighbortablet
- neighbortabula
- neighbortabula ansata
- neighbortabula lusoria
- neighbortabular
- neighbortabulate
- neighbortabulated
- neighbortabulation
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for tabula rasa. 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