Heracliteanadj.n.

/ˌhɛrəklʌɪˈtiːən/

Forms: Also Heracleitean.

Etymology: < Latin Hēraclītēus, Greek Ἡρακλείτειος, pertaining to Hēraclītus + -an suffix.

a. Of, pertaining to, or of the style of Heraclitus of Ephesus, a Greek philosopher of the 5th century b.c. (called the ‘weeping philosopher’), or his physical or other theories.

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Pythagorical1570

Pythagorean1579

Anaxagorean1586

Pythagoric1589

Empedoclean1599

Democritean1603

Democritala1617

Democritical1650

atomical1653

Italic1662

Democritish1668

Anaximandrian1678

atomic1678

Democritic1678

Heraclitic1678

hylopathian1678

Parmenidean1678

Heracliticala1688

atomistic1695

Eleatic1695

atomistical1707

acousmatic1753

Pythagorico-Platonic1760

Zenonic1779

Heraclitean1791

neopythagorean1863

1791 W. Enfield Brucker's Hist. Philos. I. 443 Plato himself, when he was young, learned the Heraclitean philosophy from Cratylus, and adopted that part which treated of the nature and motion of matter.

1864 Reader No. 105. 824/1 Full of their Heraclitean fire.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. Introd. 426 Beginning with the mysteries and the Heracleitean alternation of opposites.

1955 J. K. Baxter Fire & Anvil 65 A Heracleitean cosmos.

b. n. A disciple of Heraclitus.

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1882 R. Adamson in Encycl. Brit. XIV. 784/2 The extreme Heracliteans, as Cratylus, rejected the proposition, or combination of words, as expressing a unity and permanence not to be found in things.

Derivatives

Heracliˈteanism n.

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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > pre-Socratic schools of philosophy > [noun]

Ionic sect1603

Ionic school1670

atomicism1678

atomism1678

atomology1678

Heraclitism1788

Eleaticism1867

Heracliteanism1885

Heracleiteanism1932

1885 W. Pater Marius the Epicurean I. 133 Heracliteanism had grown to be almost identical with the famous doctrine of the sophist Protagoras.

Heracleiteanism n.

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