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Whiteheadian

adjective, noun

Whiteheadian is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), English mathematician and philosopher” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-H-I-T-E-H-E-A-D-I-A-N, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does Whiteheadian mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), English mathematician and philosopher.

noun

  1. 1

    A proponent of Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of Whiteheadian

  • more Whiteheadian comparative
  • most Whiteheadian superlative
  • Whiteheadians plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is Whiteheadian?

Whiteheadian appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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 Whiteheadian come from?

From Whitehead + -ian.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).