Foucauldian
adjective, noun
Foucauldian is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to the philosophy of Michel Foucault” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-U-C-A-U-L-D-I-A-N, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Foucauldian mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to the philosophy of Michel Foucault.
noun
- 1
A proponent of the philosophy of Michel Foucault.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Foucauldian
- more Foucauldian comparative
- most Foucauldian superlative
- Foucauldean
- Foucaldian
- Foucaultian
- Foucauldians plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Foucauldian?
Foucauldian appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does Foucauldian come from?
From Foucault + -ian, perhaps by contamination with the French surname Foucauld as borne by Charles de Foucauld.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).