matheme means A quasi-scientific symbolic formula serving to represent an idea, used in the works of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. It carries an Arena rating of 1201, earned across 145 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, matheme ranks #2,653 of 17,151 for The Improbable, #4,081 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #4,367 of 17,138 for Most Incisive Words, #6,565 of 17,132 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound.
Why “matheme” is a great word
MATHEME — [Noun] A formal symbolic notation devised by psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to represent and transmit a fundamental psychoanalytic concept or structural relation with scientific rigor. From Ancient Greek μάθημα (máthēma, "lesson, that which is learned"). Coined in the 20th century by French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Unlike a "concept"—a general, abstract idea—or an "algorithm"—a step-by-step computational procedure—a matheme is a static, axiomatic inscription meant to arrest the slippage of meaning. It is the stark S/s fracturing signification, the cryptic algebra of the objet petit *a*, or the austere geometry of the L-schema—a desperate formalist bulwark erected against the oceanic drift of speech, a faith as poignant as it is austere.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μάθημα (máthēma, “lesson”).
noun
- A quasi-scientific symbolic formula serving to represent an idea, used in the works of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.
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- mathemic 68% match — Relating to mathemes. vs matheme →
- mathemaku 60% match — A genre of pseudohaiku which combines a very short poetic structure with elegant mathematical expression; also, an example of this genre. vs matheme →
- lexeme 56% match — A lexical item corresponding to the set of all words (or of all multi-word expressions) that are semantically related through inflection of a particular shared basic form.; The abstract minimum unit of language or meaning that underlies such a set. vs matheme →
- mathematizable 55% match — Capable of being analyzed or described using mathematical concepts or notation. vs matheme →
- lemmatic 55% match — Relating to a lemma. vs matheme →
- theorematic 55% match — Of, relating to, or contained in a theorem. vs matheme →
- theoremic 54% match — theorematic vs matheme →
- pheneme 53% match — A (hypothetical) linguistic item that is atomic both with respect to phonology as well as semantics; an item that is both a phoneme as well as a sememe. vs matheme →