aporia
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin aporia, from Ancient Greek ἀπορία (aporía), from ἄπορος (áporos, “impassable”), from ἀ- (a-, “a-”) + πόρος (póros, “passage”).
Pronunciation edit
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Examples (rhetoric) |
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But, how can I describe the beauty of the desert? |
aporia (plural aporias)
- (rhetoric) An expression of deliberation with oneself regarding uncertainty or doubt as to how to proceed.
- 2012, Andy Martin, “Text Messenger”, in Literary Review, section 404:
- Meanings are superposed in an aporia – not ‘either/or’, but ‘and/and’.
- 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 9:
- What they intend sickens and frightens them, and they can never speak of it directly. Instead, wrapped in whispers are ellipses, euphemisms, mumbled aporia followed by throat-clearing and a brisk change of subject.
- (philosophy, post-structuralism) An insoluble contradiction, especially in a text's meaning; a logical impasse suggested by a text or speaker.
- Synonyms: impasse, paradox, contradiction
- 2009, Mark Fisher, chapter 3, in Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Zero Books, →ISBN, page 19:
- But Green issues are already a contested zone, already a site where politicization is being fought for. In what follows, I want to stress two other aporias in capitalist realism, which are not yet politicized to anything like the same degree. The first is mental health.
- 2014 May 27, Alison Flood, quoting Eva Illouz, “Fifty Shades of Grey is really a self-help book, says academic”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- EL James's multimillion selling series of novels ‘encodes the aporias of heterosexual relationships’, according to Professor Eva Illouz[.]
- 2018, David Auerbach, Bitwise: A Life in Code[2], Vintage, →ISBN:
- Plato believed that the core impulse to philosophizing lies in aporia, the point at which, in struggling to understand a phenomenon or answer a question, we come up against a seemingly irresolvable contradiction.
Translations edit
expression of doubt
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Internationalism (see English aporia), ultimately from Latin aporia.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aporia
Declension edit
Inflection of aporia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | aporia | aporiat | ||
genitive | aporian | aporioiden aporioitten | ||
partitive | aporiaa | aporioita | ||
illative | aporiaan | aporioihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | aporia | aporiat | ||
accusative | nom. | aporia | aporiat | |
gen. | aporian | |||
genitive | aporian | aporioiden aporioitten aporiainrare | ||
partitive | aporiaa | aporioita | ||
inessive | aporiassa | aporioissa | ||
elative | aporiasta | aporioista | ||
illative | aporiaan | aporioihin | ||
adessive | aporialla | aporioilla | ||
ablative | aporialta | aporioilta | ||
allative | aporialle | aporioille | ||
essive | aporiana | aporioina | ||
translative | aporiaksi | aporioiksi | ||
abessive | aporiatta | aporioitta | ||
instructive | — | aporioin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Galician edit
Verb edit
aporia
- (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular conditional of apor
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Internationalism, learned borrowing from Latin aporia, from Ancient Greek ἀπορία (aporía).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aporia (plural aporia-aporia, first-person possessive aporiaku, second-person possessive aporiamu, third-person possessive aporianya)
Further reading edit
- “aporia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek.
Noun edit
aporia f (plural aporie)
Anagrams edit
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀπορία (aporía).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aporia f
Declension edit
Declension of aporia
Derived terms edit
adjective
nouns
Further reading edit
- aporia in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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Verb edit
aporia