civilizational
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7.5
- adjective
- /ˌsɪvəlɪˈzeɪʃənl/
- Formal
- The rise of technology has significantly influenced civilizational change around the world.
- civilizational conflict
- civilizational development
- civilizational dimension
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Watch on YouTubeSo that's a sign of of gradual or insidious civilizational decay.
- So that's a sign of of gradual or insidious civilizational decay.
- But I think that that is wrong that the for me, the essence of university is is to pass on a civilizational legacy.
- I think that's a good word, like a civilizational hubris, a overquoting of the naturalistic fallacy as well.
- And I think it's hard to avoid the sort of smell of civilizational death at at times, and then very easy to get pessimistic.
Examples
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We have to see this stuff in a much broader civilisational context.
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To discourse comprehensibly on change, then, engages a vast enterprise of comparative civilizational studies.
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It's not just at the civilizational level.
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For him, changes in verbal or material culture indicated civilizational development towards greater complexity.
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Moreover, despite what history has made of him, Smith never claimed that civilizational progress was an unqualified good.
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In contrast, migrants and Turkey itself strongly cultivate civilizational awareness in their own identity politics.
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Among Islamists, the head scarf is not just an article of clothing but an icon of civilizational divide.
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The equality of the races could be expected to produce a rough civilizational equality among cultures, Gobineau writes.
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Part 1 of this text describes the current societal framework and the rise of human-technology convergence to civilizational center stage.
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But fostering Muslim-evangelical dialogue may be one of the best ways to forestall the threat of civilizational warfare.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
687
3.5
The ideas, customs, and arts of a group of people
Antonyms
- Offensive
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5.9
Showing little social or cultural development and often acting rude and violent
Surface Forms
Morphology
civilizational = civilization (transparent) = civil + ization + al
The adjective is formed straightforwardly from the noun 'civilization' with the common suffix '-al'.
Etymology
The word civilizational comes from civil, which comes from the Latin civis, meaning 'citizen' or 'people of a city'. So think of a civilization as how a group of people live together—their culture, ways of living and values—and civilizational describes things related to that shared way of life.