Wildian

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Wild +‎ -ian.

Adjective[edit]

Wildian (comparative more Wildian, superlative most Wildian)

  1. Of or pertaining to John Daniel Wild (1902–1972), American philosopher, an important proponent of existentialism and phenomenology.
    • 1989, James M. Edie, “John Wild and Phenomenology”, in Eugene F. Kaelin, Calvin O. Schrag, editors, American Phenomenology: Origins and Developments (Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research; 26), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 90:
      Thus the title of his paper at Royaumont has a Husserlian ring, but a peculiarly Wildian intonation: “L'anthropologie philosophique et la crise des sciences européennes.”

Etymology 2[edit]

From Wilde +‎ -ian.

Adjective[edit]

Wildian (comparative more Wildian, superlative most Wildian)

  1. Alternative form of Wildean (“of or pertaining to Oscar Wilde”).
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