Actual Freedom – Definitions

Definitions

Conceptual; Conceptualize; Concipient; Concoct; Concupiscent

Confabulation; Confabulate; Congenial; Congenital; Connatural

Consequence; Constructionism; Contradiction

Contrariousness; Contrarianism; Contrary; Controversialist

Contumacy; Contumacious; Copulate; Corpuscle

Corrigendum; Corrupt; Corruptio Optimi Pessima Est

Cosmopolitan; Coup de Theatre; Cowboy Activity; Cozen; Crass

Criticaster; Crotchety/ Mean/ Musty/ DeadmanCulturalise


Conceptual

• conceptual art (n.): art that is intended to convey an idea or concept to the perceiver and need not involve the creation or appreciation of a traditional art object such as a painting or sculpture. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

• conceptual art (n.): art in which the idea or concept presented by the artist is considered more important than the finished product, if any such exists. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).


Conceptualize:

conceptualise (tr.v.): to form a concept of, and esp. to interpret in a conceptual way. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).


Concipient:

concipient (adj.): conceptive, conceiving. [etymology: Latin concipient-, concipiens, present participle of concipere, ‘to conceive’]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).


Concoct:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘concoct (lit. ‘cook together’): devise or make up (a story, scheme, etc.) by elaborate or concerted planning; fabricate’. (Oxford Dictionary).


Concupiscent:

concupiscent (adj.): 1. lustful or sensual; [e.g.]: “Today’s woman is no longer just the plaything of the concupiscent male”; 2. eagerly desirous. ~ (Random House Dictionary).


Confabulation:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘confabulation Psychiatry: the invention of imaginary experiences to fill gaps in memory; an account so fabricated’. (Oxford Dictionary).

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘confabulate: Psychiatry. fabricate imaginary experiences as a compensation for loss of memory’. (Oxford Dictionary).


Congenial:


Congenital:

congenital (adj.): denoting or relating to any nonhereditary condition, esp. an abnormal condition, existing at birth. ~ (Collins Discovery Encyclopaedia).

congenital (adj.): 1. denoting or relating to any nonhereditary condition, esp. an abnormal condition, existing at birth; [e.g.]: “congenital blindness”; 2. (informal) complete, as if from birth; [e.g.]: “a congenital idiot”; (adv.): congenitally; (n.): congenitalness. [C18: from Latin congenitus, ‘born together with’, from con- , ‘con-’ + genitus, ‘born’, past participle of gignere, ‘to bear’, ‘beget’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).


Connatural:

[Dictionary Definitions]:

connatural (adj.): 1. belonging to persons by nature or from birth or origin; inborn; 2. of the same or a similar nature; (adv.): connaturally; (n.): connaturality. [1585-95; from Medieval Latin connātūrālis = Latin con- + nātūrālis, ‘natural’; Latin nātūra = nāt(us), past participle of nāscī, ‘to be born’ + -ūra, ‘-ure’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

• connatural (adj.): 1. forming an essential element, as arising from the basic structure of an individual: built-in, congenital, constitutional, elemental, inborn, inbred, indigenous, indwelling, ingrained, inherent, innate, intrinsic, native, natural; 2. connected by or as if by kinship or common origin: agnate, akin, allied, cognate, connate, consanguine, consanguineous, kindred, related. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).


Action/Behaviour/Deed –> Result/Outcome/Consequence:

Vis.:

• consequence (n.): a result or effect, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant; (phrases): in consequence: as a result (‘he died in consequence of injuries sustained’); take (or bear) the consequences: accept responsibility for the negative results or effects of one’s choice or action (‘you acted on your own initiative, and you will take the consequences’). (Oxford Dictionary).

• consequence (n.): 1. a result or effect of some previous occurrence; 2. an unpleasant result (esp in the phrase ‘take the consequences’). (Collins Dictionary).


Constructionism:

• constructionism (n.): the theory that beliefs are constructed socially or culturally.~ (Collins English Dictionary).

• social constructionism: a theory of how social phenomena or objects of consciousness develop in social contexts and form the basis for shared assumptions about reality (...) the concept of socially constructed reality stresses the ongoing mass-building of worldviews by individuals in dialectical interaction with society (dialectic (n.): disputation or debate, esp. intended to resolve differences between two views rather than to establish one of them as true (Collins English Dictionary), and the numerous realities so formed comprise the imagined worlds of human social existence and activity, gradually crystallised by habit into institutions propped up by language conventions, given ongoing legitimacy by mythology, religion and philosophy, maintained by therapies and socialisation, and subjectively internalised by upbringing and education to become part of the identity of social citizens.~ (2017 Wikipedia Encyclopaedia).


Contradiction:

contradiction (n.): a statement containing propositions or terms which are at variance with one another; inconsistency (=‘lack of consistency; incompatibility, discrepancy’). ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).


Contrariousness:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘contrariousness: characterised by self-willed or refractory opposition, perverse’. (Oxford Dictionary).


Contrarianism:

contrarianism (n.; pl. contrarianisms): beliefs and practices of a contrarian {viz.: ‘disagreeing with or proceeding against current opinion or established practice’}; [e.g.]: “Craig Kelly, MP, who specialised in implacable unreason about climate change before his conversion to stubborn contrarianism about various Covid remedies – at odds with the views of designated experts including Australia’s chief medical officer – speaks to a constituency the Coalition wants to court: a group of voters tempted to vote for rightwing protest parties rather than the Liberals and the Nationals”. (‘The Guardian‎’, Katharine Murphy; February 2, 2002). [etymology: contrarian +‎ -ism. [curly-bracketed insert added]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary).


Contrary:

• contrary (adj.): 1. diametrically opposed: antipodal, antipodean, antithetical, antonymic, antonymous, contradictory, converse, counter, diametric, diametrical, opposing, opposite, polar, reverse; 2. given to acting in opposition to others: balky, contrarious, difficult, froward {=stubbornly contrary and disobedient; obstinate}, impossible, ornery, perverse, wayward. [curly-bracketed insert added]. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).


Controversialist:

controversialist (n.): a person who takes part in controversy or likes to do so; [e.g.]: “A controversialist tends to want to smother contradiction in deceptively straightforward elegance”. (The Guardian; 2017). ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).


Contumacy/Contumacity:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘contumacy/contumacity: (...) stubborn perverseness’. (Oxford Dictionary).

Contumacious:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘contumacious: (...) stubbornly perverse; of a disease: resistant to treatment’. (Oxford Dictionary).


Copulate:

copulate (intr.v. copulated, copulating, copulates): 1. to engage in *sexual intercourse in which the penis is inserted into the vagina*; 2. (used of animals) to transfer male reproductive cells from one individual to another, usually into an internal organ or cavity, such as a cloaca; (adj.): coupled; joined; (n.): copulation; (adj.): copulatory. [emphasis added]. [Latin cōpulāre, cōpulāt-, ‘to join together’, from cōpula, ‘link’, ‘bond’, ‘connection’; from co-, ‘together’ + apere, ‘to fasten’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).


Corpuscle

[Dictionary Definition]: corpuscle (n.): (physics) a discrete particle such as *an electron*, photon, ion, or atom. [C17: from Latin corpusculum, ‘a little body’, from corpus, ‘body’]. [emphasis added]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).


Corrigendum:


Corrupt:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘corrupt: depraved; infected with evil; perverted (...)’. (Oxford Dictionary).


Corruptio Optima Pessima Est:


A Citizen of the World:

A specific type of cosmopolitan, in other words, or a cosmopolite.

Viz.:

• cosmopolitan (n.): a person who is free from local, provincial, or national bias or attachment; citizen of the world; cosmopolite. [1835-45]. (Webster’s College Dictionary).

Cosmopolitan (n.): a person who is free from local, provincial, or national bias or attachment; citizen of the world; cosmopolite. [1835-45]. (Webster’s College Dictionary).


Coup de Théâtre:

coup de théâtre (n., pl. coups de théâtre): 1. a surprising or sensational turn of events in a play; 2. any theatrical trick intended to have a sensational effect. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).


Cowboy:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘cowboy: (...) an unqualified or unauthorised trader or operator’. (Copyright © 1998 Oxford Dictionary).


Cozen:

cozen (v.; cozened, cozening, cozens): 1. to mislead by means of a petty trick or fraud; deceive; 2. to persuade or induce to do something by cajoling or wheedling; 3. to obtain by deceit or persuasion; (v.intr.): to act deceitfully; (n.): cozener, cozenage. [probably ultimately (perhaps via Middle English cosin, ‘fraud’, ‘trickery’) from Old French cosson, ‘middleman’, ‘trader’, or obsolete Italian cozzonare, ‘to cheat’ (from Italian cozzone, ‘horse-trader), both ultimately from Latin cōciō, coctiō, ‘dealer’, perhaps of Etruscan origin]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).


Crass:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘crass: grossly stupid, dull, or insensitive’. (Copyright © 1998 Oxford Dictionary).


Criticaster:


Crotchety; Mean; Musty; Deadman:

[Dictionary Definition]:

• ‘crotchety: peevish [querulous, irritable, childishly fretful; spiteful], given to crotchets [perverse beliefs or preferences, usu. about trivial matters]. (Oxford Dictionary)

• ‘mean: vicious, nasty, difficult to handle or deal with, unpleasant. (Oxford Dictionary).

• ‘musty: having a smell or taste indicative or suggestive of mouldiness or decay; stale-smelling, fusty; antiquated, disused, old-fashioned; ill-humoured, peevish, sullen. (Oxford Dictionary).

• ‘deadman (transf. & fig.): a man who is dead. (Oxford Dictionary)


Culturalise:

[Dictionary Definition]: Culturalise (tr.v.; culturalised, culturalising): to expose or subject to the influence of culture {viz.: culture = the sum total of ways of living built up by a group of human beings and transmitted from one generation to another}; (n.): culturalisation. [1955-60]. [curly-bracketed insert added]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).


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