herd-like

comparative more herd-like · superlative most herd-like

1. alternativeAlternative form of herdlike.

   Their garb and stillness conjoined, present an uniformity, tranquil and herd-like—as in the pasture—“forty feeding like one.”

   1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “A Quaker’s Meeting”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 110

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   Hitler also exploited the increased susceptibility of people when they were weary by gathering them in the evenings, and when they were in large crowds, and hence more inclined to respond according to a herd-like instinct.

   1997, Rosalind W[right] Picard, “Emotions Are Physical and Cognitive”, in Affective Computing, Cambridge, Mass.; London: The MIT Press, published 2000, →ISBN, section I (Envisioning Affective Computing), page 42

   First question with regard to hierarchy: how solitary or how herd-like someone is (in the latter case his value lies in the qualities which secure the existence of his herd, his type, in the former case, in what separates, isolates, defends and makes it possible to be solitary.)

   2008, Herman W. Siemens, “Yes, No, Maybe So… Nietzsche’s Equivocations on the Relation between Democracy and ‘Grosse Politik’”, in Herman W. Siemens, Vasti Roodt, editors, Nietzsche, Power and Politics: Rethinking Nietzsche’s Legacy for Political Thought, Berlin; New York, N.Y.: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, section II (Nietzsche and Democracy/Nietzsche contra Democracy), subsection 3 (Nietzsche’s equivocal relation to democracy), page 259