paradigmatic

comparative more paradigmatic · superlative most paradigmatic

1. Of or pertaining to a paradigm.

   Throughout much of the 19th and up to the late 20th century, a decidedly biomedical model was adopted to explain the presence of disease. […] Midway through the 20th century, however, paradigmatic changes took place that increased both the scope and complexity of the concept of disease […]

   2023, Anne L. Grauer, “Introduction” (chapter 1), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 2

2. human sciencesRelated as members of a substitution class.
3. obsoleteExemplary.

plural paradigmatics

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