problematiquen.
/ˌprɒbləmaˈtiːk/, U.S. /ˌprɑbləməˈtik/ The complex of issues associated with a topic, considered collectively; spec. the totality of environmental and other problems affecting the world. Cf. problematic n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > [noun] > collectively
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1970 News Jrnl. (Mansfield, Ohio) 21 July 2/2 All this adds up to so much more than our pedestrian ideas of what a problem is that futurologists have coined a word for it—the ‘problematique’.
1979 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 2: Eastern Europe (B.B.C.) 29 Mar. EE/6079/A3/1 Much attention in these studies is attached to the problematique of deformation of socialism.
1985 Christian Sci. Monitor 6 Feb. 15/2 Soviet scholars responded with interest to reports issued by the Club of Rome on the ‘world problématique’.
1998 Econ. Jrnl. 108 1901 International business represents a set of important problematiques to which analysts bring a set of theoretical, conceptual, and empirical tools.
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