paradigm | | |
n. (linkdef) | 1. paradigm | systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word. |
| ~ inflection, inflexion | a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function. |
n. (cognition) | 2. epitome, image, paradigm, prototype | a standard or typical example.; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father" |
| ~ example, model | a representative form or pattern.; "I profited from his example" |
| ~ concentrate | a concentrated example of something.; "the concentrate of contemporary despair" |
| ~ imago | (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood. |
n. (communication) | 3. paradigm, substitution class | the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another). |
| ~ category, class, family | a collection of things sharing a common attribute.; "there are two classes of detergents" |
n. (cognition) | 4. paradigm | the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time.; "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm" |
| ~ perspective, view, position | a way of regarding situations or topics etc..; "consider what follows from the positivist view" |
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