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.
- 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.”