Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to rhizomes; having the nature or appearance of a rhizome; rhizomalous.
Wiktionary
- adj. Resembling or related to a rhizome.
- adj. philosophy Employing rhizomes; not arborescent.
Etymologies
- Scientific Latin rhizomat- + English -ic (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Fast-frozen structures have yielded to new forms of social organization with "rhizomatic" reach, to borrow a term from French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.”
“A big reason that this particular rhizomatic model offers a more effective form of leadership and story creation than a tree-in-the-head like Uygur can see or admit is that it mirrors the digital ecosystem in which stories live.”
The Huffington Post: Mike Bonifer: Cenk Uygur Has a Tree in His Head
“In a very important sense, Twitter is decentralized at its core, it is rhizomatic rather than arborescent.”
“The Webkit team, as a rhizomatic offshoot from Apple, has a similar development pedigree and has consistently produced a high quality — now cross-platform — open source project, nary engaging in polemics or politics.”
“Nomadology and rhizomatic resistance may provide a means to solve the problem represented in the novel.”
“The plant has a slow spreading, rhizomatic root system that supports several vertically furrowed blooms, each stamen independent yet fundamentally connected.”
“A la, Zizek I would say that your real arguement is Deluezian one, in which a rhizomatic capitalism breaks down more and more traditional social barriers in the name of profit.”
“The separate varieties combine together in a rhizomatic scheme until the result, a Dinosaur Egg or Dapple Dandy, comes out at the end.”
“During one espresso-filled night, he gets his first major break in the case: from out of that rhizomatic mess of ancient and modern hydro-infrastructure, a pattern emerges...”
“There is likely a more rhizomatic way of thinking about, and discussing poetry.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rhizomatic’.
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chairmanK's list
eristic, eidetic, reticular, legshow, phytomorphic, ophidian, autumnal, frisson, rhizomatic, pulchritude, lubricious, veridical and 110 more...
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mattbarton's list
Words Dear to Computers and Writing peeps
web 2.0, exigence, technological det..., arhetorical, incompatible, foucauldian, verisimilitude, rhizomatic
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Noesis
Mind or Mind Altering
example: psychotomimetic
( _mark, personal list, randomness )noetic, entheogen, psychonautics, infinite, bewilderment, mystification, stupefication, enhanced, altered, perception, simulation, network and 204 more...
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Phrases and words I didn't know
give up the ghost, ninja'd, coal-hole, hotting up, chancer, clave, salaryman, turf accountant, cremains, autoclave, hummingbird mind, gank and 175 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1692 more...
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College Encounters
College makes me learn new words. Sometimes. Or else look them up and promptly forget about them.
Studying art and social & political theory. So these words are generally related to on...coeval, hegemony, reify, atavism, reticent, imbricate, itinerant, quotidian, ontology, adjudicate, interpellate, alterity and 62 more...
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blacklance's Words
incarnadine, multitudinous, seneschal, demesne, rhizomatic, zen, moon, viridian, sinister, obfuscate, haruspex, scintillating and 4 more...
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misappropriations and fabrications fr...
nomadology, rhizomatic, anti-oedipus, deterritorialization, destratification, body without organs, asignification, fascicular, radical-system, radical-chaosmos, agglomeration, psuedomultiplicities and 13 more...
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textkultur's list one
My first Wordie list ... rather random, I suppose
hands-free, perineum, bwo, brouhaha, clystermonger, omphalos, mephitic, harridan, keening hag, goiter, prohaїresis, heterotopic and 16 more...
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WebPixie's list
Random interesting words to sort later
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jey's Words
clerestory, outwith, sublunary, machair, luskentyre, antisyzygy, narthex, halyard, anegada, hebrides, schiehallion, quiraing and 53 more...
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jodi For the philosophy term, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome_%28philosophy%29 Oct 10, 2011