funicity

English

Etymology

Coined by Viktor Weisskopf from the name of Ireneo Funes, a character who lost his ability to forget, in Jorge Luis Borges' short story Funes the Memorious (Funes el memorioso, 1942). See -ic, -ity.

Noun

funicity (uncountable)

(physics) An inbuilt quality of materials that permanently “remember” their original time and place of creation.
- 1995, David Hawkins, “The Grand Laws of Scale”, in Thinking Physics for Teaching:
  For some quark, perhaps, the measure of its funicity is zero.
The reflection of an object's own history in its current form.
- 1985, D Preziosi, That obscure object of desire: The art of art history:
  In this grey and lugubrious "history," form is all, and any work of art incorporates traces of its (own) funicity.
- 2011, Takeshi Ogura, Dynamic Aspects Of Natural Products Chemistry, →ISBN, page 30:
  Our ability to read historical change and transformation in the funicity of things - the very bedrock of our socialization - is a socio-semiotic skill we begin to acquire in infancy, and is refined throughout our lives.

单词	funicity
释义	funicity English Etymology Coined by Viktor Weisskopf from the name of Ireneo Funes, a character who lost his ability to forget, in Jorge Luis Borges' short story Funes the Memorious (Funes el memorioso, 1942). See -ic, -ity. Noun funicity (uncountable) (physics) An inbuilt quality of materials that permanently “remember” their original time and place of creation. 1995, David Hawkins, “The Grand Laws of Scale”, in Thinking Physics for Teaching: For some quark, perhaps, the measure of its funicity is zero. The reflection of an object's own history in its current form. 1985, D Preziosi, That obscure object of desire: The art of art history: In this grey and lugubrious "history," form is all, and any work of art incorporates traces of its (own) funicity. 2011, Takeshi Ogura, Dynamic Aspects Of Natural Products Chemistry, →ISBN, page 30: Our ability to read historical change and transformation in the funicity of things - the very bedrock of our socialization - is a socio-semiotic skill we begin to acquire in infancy, and is refined throughout our lives.
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