Hermeneutic

Quick meaning: Hermeneutic is an adjective meaning (humanities, theology) Having to do with hermeneutics; that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates texts, especially holy texts.

Meaning

(humanities, theology) Having to do with hermeneutics; that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates texts, especially holy texts.

More Meanings

1. (humanities, theology) A particular theory of hermeneutics; a particular method of interpretation of text, especially holy texts.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: exegetic, exegetical

The hermeneutics of suspicion needs to be balanced by a hermeneutic that is grounded in the recognition that written texts represent valid expressions of their author's intent, and that principles may be established that would guide the reader to that intent.

Following the goal of surrealist automatic writing, the sheer richness of this dream imagery blurs the border between oneirography and fiction—the tawdry colonials, the sign of the alluring woman, the writing lesson, the papyrus turban, the disguised charlatan's reverie, the ecstasy of signification, writing both conscious and unconscious, poetic and hermeneutic, text and mirror, "langage tangage" (Leiris 1985⁹)—composing a narrative philosophy of cross-cultural existence.

Word Forms

• hermeneutics

Synonyms for hermeneutic

Depending on context, synonyms include hermeneutical, exegetic, exegetical, exegesis.

Antonyms for hermeneutic

Common opposites include nonhermeneutic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hermeneutical, historico-grammatical, historical-grammatical, grammatico-historical, literal, philologic.

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