Get to know Hobbesian better with 6 real example sentences, the meaning.
Hobbesian in a sentence
Hobbesian meaning
- Of, relating to, or influenced by Thomas Hobbes or his philosophical theories.
- Involving unrestrained, selfish, and uncivilized competition.
Using Hobbesian
- The main meaning on this page is: Of, relating to, or influenced by Thomas Hobbes or his philosophical theories. | Involving unrestrained, selfish, and uncivilized competition.
- In the example corpus, hobbesian often appears in combinations such as: the hobbesian.
Context around Hobbesian
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hobbesian
- In this selection, "hobbesian" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, increasingly, classic, terms, paradox and global stand out and add context to how "hobbesian" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a classic hobbesian world the and become in hobbesian terms short. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hobbesian" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hobbesian
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Life in Gaza has become in Hobbesian terms, “ short, nasty and brutish”. (12 words)
The Hobbesian paradox is that society guarantees your freedom by limiting your freedom! (13 words)
The commission said it was necessary for people to note that Nigeria was not a Hobbesian state where might was right. (21 words)
In today’s increasingly Hobbesian global environment, the EU can survive only by increasing its capacity to project power – no easy feat for an entity that was formed precisely as a repudiation of power politics. (35 words)
It a classic Hobbesian world, the war against all against all – a comic dystopia Trump is building in the White House and aspires to create worldwide. (26 words)
Those who were close to the Hobbesian view tended to believe themselves to have a duty to "civilize" and "modernize" the indigenous. (22 words)
The Hobbesian paradox is that society guarantees your freedom by limiting your freedom! (13 words)
Example sentences (6)
Life in Gaza has become in Hobbesian terms, “ short, nasty and brutish”.
The commission said it was necessary for people to note that Nigeria was not a Hobbesian state where might was right.
The Hobbesian paradox is that society guarantees your freedom by limiting your freedom!
In today’s increasingly Hobbesian global environment, the EU can survive only by increasing its capacity to project power – no easy feat for an entity that was formed precisely as a repudiation of power politics.
It a classic Hobbesian world, the war against all against all – a comic dystopia Trump is building in the White House and aspires to create worldwide.
Those who were close to the Hobbesian view tended to believe themselves to have a duty to "civilize" and "modernize" the indigenous.
Common combinations with hobbesian
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: