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archetypal

adjective

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Pronunciation: /ˈɑːkɪtaɪpəl/ / /ˈɑɹkɪtaɪpəl/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English archetype Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English archetypal From archetype + -al.

  1. Of or pertaining to an archetype.

    In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg and in his inaugural lecture made a pronouncement that earned him a reputation as an archetypal metaphysician with his claim that our awareness of people as a whole depends on our experience of dread in the face of nothingness.

archetypal — meaning, definition (adjective) · Vinony