alienans

发音

其它 /ˈeɪli.ənænz/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An alienans adjective.

    哲学
adj.
  1. 1.

    Negating, denying, modifying, or casting doubt on the applicability of its modificand.

    哲学

    The newspaper never called him "the murderer", always "the alleged murderer", but the alienans adjective didn't help very much: the word "murderer" is all people saw.

    Because a "decoy duck" is not a duck, "decoy" is an alienans adjective.

词源

From Latin aliēnāns, present active participle of aliēnō (“make something another's”), from aliēnus (“another's, foreign”).

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