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philosophy
philosophy is a 10-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws. Face value is 23 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 23 · Words With Friends 23 · 9 senses
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- 1noun
Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.
- 2noun
A particular philosophical system or theory; the hypothesis by which particular phenomena are explained.
- 3noun
Practical wisdom; calmness of temper and judgment; equanimity; fortitude; stoicism; as, to meet misfortune with philosophy.
- 4noun
Reasoning; argumentation.
- 5noun
The course of sciences read in the schools.
- 6noun
A treatise on philosophy.
- 7noun
a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
- 8noun
any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation
"self-indulgence was his only philosophy"
"my father's philosophy of child-rearing was to let mother do it"
- 9noun
the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
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