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Definition: MAIEUTICS |
MAIEUTICSNoun1. The art of giving birth (i. e., clearness and conviction) to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth. |
| Language | Translations for "MAIEUTICS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hebrew | שיטת שאלות ותשובות. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aieuticsmay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The word is derived from the Greek "maieutikos," pertaining to midwifery.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Maieutics."
| Words rhyming with "MAIEUTICS" (pronounced 'Ma*ieu"tics'): Acoustics, Agonistics, Anaclastics, Anaglyptics, Authentics, Ballistics, Biostatistics, Cameralistics, Catallactics, Chrematistics, Diacoustics, Diagnostics, Dialectics, Didactics, Electro-ballistics, Evectics, Glyptics, gymnastics, Halieutics, hermeneutics, Heteroptics, Hydrotherapeutics, linguistics, lithoglyptics, logistics, Optics, paideutics, Patristics, Peptics, Pharmaceutics, Phelloplastics, Photics, Polyacoustics, Proleptics, Propaedeutics, Proplastics, Psychotherapeutics, Pyrognostics, Scioptics, Sphragistics, statistics, tactics. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-m-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: acuities, autecism, maieutic, meticais. | |
-2 letters: amities, caesium, miscite, sematic. | |
-3 letters: acetum, acutes, aecium, amices, amicus, autism, camise, cesium, cities, cuesta, cuties, iciest, mastic, meatus, misact, misate, miscue, miscut, miseat, muscae, muscat, mutase, samite, umiacs. | |
-4 letters: acmes, acute, amice, amici, amies, amuse, cames, caste, cates, cause, cesta, cesti, cites, cutes, cutie, cutis, emits, etuis, ictus, items, maces, maist, mates, mauts, meats, mesic, metis, micas, mites, mitis, musca, music, mutes, saice, satem, sauce, saute, scuta, scute, smite, steam, stime, suite, sumac, taces, tames, tamis, teams, times, umiac. | |
-5 letters: aces, acme, acts, aims, aits, amie, amis, amus, asci, ates, came, cams, case, cast, cate, cats, cist, cite, cues, cute, cuts, east, eats, ecus, emic, emit, emus, etas, etic, etui, ices, item, mace, macs, maes, mast, mate, mats, maut, meat, mesa, meta, mica, mice, mise, mist, mite, muse, must, mute, muts, same, sate, sati, scam, scat, scum, scut, seam, seat, sect, semi, seta, sice, sima, site, smit, smut, stem, stum, suet, suit, tace, tame, tams, taus, team, teas, tics, ties, time, tuis, utas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-m-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: ultimacies. | |
+2 letters: semiaquatic. | |
+3 letters: miseducating, miseducation, musicalities. | |
+4 letters: autoeroticism, communalities, eudaemonistic, masculinities, misarticulate, miseducations, muscularities, semiautomatic. | |
+5 letters: antirheumatics, autoeroticisms, automaticities, emulsification, metalinguistic, misarticulated, misarticulates, municipalities, mutagenicities, pneumaticities, semiautomatics, semifunctional, vermiculations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 41 49 45 55 54 49 43 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .. . ..- - .. -.-. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000001 01001001 01000101 01010101 01010100 01001001 01000011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M A I E U T I C S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0041 0049 0045 0055 0054 0049 0043 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)473543395554433753 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Rhymes 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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