Synonyms for archetypal


Grammar : Adj
Spell : ahr-ki-tahy-puh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˌɑr kɪˈtaɪ pəl

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Définition of archetypal

Origin :
  • 1640s, from Latin archetypum (see archetype) + -al (1). Jungian sense is from 1923.
  • adj most typical
Example sentences :
  • An entire civilization may be the 'body' used by an archetypal power.
  • Extract from : « The Bright Messenger » by Algernon Blackwood
  • All must be archetypal; every truth must pre-exist to its perception.
  • Extract from : « Essays in Radical Empiricism » by William James
  • For the Divine Mind which planned the Archetypal also foreknew all its modifications.
  • Extract from : « The Plurality of Worlds » by William Whewell
  • Yes, in the sight of God, like the archetypal ideas of the Platonists.
  • Extract from : « What is Property? » by P. J. Proudhon
  • We get it from a divine original, and the Archetypal Joker must have His fun.
  • Extract from : « The Redemption of David Corson » by Charles Frederic Goss
  • Their perfection is not the individual mind or sense, but their archetypal 'ideas.'
  • Extract from : « Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria » by Norman Bentwich
  • Apart then from the incarnation, the Word was archetypal man as well as God.
  • Extract from : « The Arian Controversy » by H. M. Gwatkin
  • It brings us near to the archetypal ideas themselves, and away from nature, which is but their looking-glass.
  • Extract from : « Ideas of Good and Evil » by William Butler Yeats
  • Theoretic truth is thus no relation between our mind and archetypal reality.
  • Extract from : « Essays in Radical Empiricism » by William James
  • He had not wholly freed himself, however, from archetypal trammels.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 1 » by Various

Antonyms for archetypal

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