academented

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adjective

Representing wrong or harmful views or beliefs that are generally accepted in academia.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveacademented (comparative more academented, superlative most academented)

comparative more academented · superlative most academented

  1. colloquialderogatoryRepresenting wrong or harmful views or beliefs that are generally accepted in academia.

    A woman who chooses to be a philosopher creating in her own right has little tolerance for the droning of academented professors who re-search and re-gurgitate the babble of dead men endlessly.

    1995, Ilene Rosoff, The WomanSource Catalog & Review
    2 more examples

    […] You are killing me with your academented stupidity." To her, the postmodern emphasis on cultural difference and the sociocultural construction of the self obscure the universal sameness and evil of patriarchy.

    1997, Gary J. Dorrien, The Word as True Myth: Interpreting Modern Theology, page 216

    The patriarchal device of con-fusion involves endless blurring of soulless images, signifying nothing. In the foreground, barbie dolls and the Great Goddess are the same. "Feminists" are lauded in the media and academented publications for accepting and promoting pornography.

    1998, Mary Daly, Quintessence

Origin

  1. Ancient GreekἈκάδημος (Akádēmos)
  2. Ancient GreekἈκαδημία (Akadēmía)
  3. Ancient GreekἈκάδημος (Akádēmos)
  4. Ancient GreekἈκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia)
  5. Ancient Greekἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós)
  6. Medieval Latinacadēmicus
  7. Latinacadēmicu
  8. Frenchacadémique
  9. Englishacademic
  10. Proto-Indo-European*de
  11. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  12. Proto-Italic*dē
  13. Latindē
  14. Latindē-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*men-
  16. Proto-Indo-European*méntis
  17. Proto-Italic*mentis
  18. Latinmēns
  19. Latindēmēns
  20. Vulgar Latindēmentō
  21. Englishdement
  22. Englishdemented
  23. Englishacademented

Blend of academic + demented.

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APA

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Chicago

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