Crossword-Solution: HOLOPHRASTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Holophrastic | a. | Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, -- as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| of or like a holophrase, a single word expressing a sentence or phrase | 1 answer |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
GAAET
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with HOLOPHRASTIC (5)
The Bantu types are not so-called holophrastic forms of primitive speech in which the compounding of expressions is said to take the place of the conveyance of ideas, nor are they made up of onomatopoetic, or interjectional expressions, if indeed such languages exist anywhere outside the heads of the half-informed.
The evolution of language, then, on this view, may be regarded as a movement out of, and away from, the holophrastic in the direction of the analytic.
But I am sure that the ordinary peasant of Europe, whose society provides him, in the shape of an analytic language, with a ready-made instrument for all the purposes of clear thinking, starts at an immense advantage, as compared with a savage whose traditional speech is holophrastic.
From these and other considerations it is supposed that an analysis of the original conceptions of gestures, studied together with the holophrastic roots in the speech of the gesturers, may aid in the ascertainment of some relation between concrete ideas and words.
Various scholars have called attention to this feature by describing Indian languages as being holophrastic, polysynthetic, or synthetic.