ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Lateralist

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Lateralist is an adjective meaning Characteristic of lateralism; pertaining to the interactions of opposing interests of equal power.

Meaning

Characteristic of lateralism; pertaining to the interactions of opposing interests of equal power.

More Meanings

  1. Favoring a lateral approach or explanation over one that involves a different direction, such as a vertical one.
  2. One who engages in lateral thinking.
  3. One who favors a lateral approach or explanation over one that involves a different direction.
  4. One who favors lateralism.

Example Sentences

A lateralist and multilateralist exchange of languages and value systems redeems economy from reduction to profit and loss.
Albertano's more lateralist, Aristotelian sympathies are also reflected in his choice of setting, scenario and protagonists.
The correlator is a lateralist capable of making one to one correspondences between the vertical sciences and the horizontal arts.
Should the scientist be monological or multilogical? Should the scientist be reductionist or holist? Should the scientist be inductivist or deductivist: lateralist or verticalist?

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Related dictionary entries include left-wing, egalitarianistic, left, horizontalist, antileft, antiliberal.

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