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Meaning of "conatus" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CONATUS

From Latin: effort, from cōnārī to try.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CONATUS

conatus  [kəʊˈneɪtəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONATUS

noun
adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Conatus is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CONATUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Conatus

In early philosophies of psychology and metaphysics, conatus is an innate inclination of a thing to continue to exist and enhance itself. This "thing" may be mind, matter or a combination of both. Over the millennia, many different definitions and treatments have been formulated. Seventeenth-century philosophers René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Leibniz, and Thomas Hobbes made important contributions. The conatus may refer to the instinctive "will to live" of living organisms or to various metaphysical theories of motion and inertia. Often the concept is associated with God's will in a pantheist view of Nature. The concept may be broken up into separate definitions for the mind and body and split when discussing centrifugal force and inertia. The history of the term conatus is that of a series of subtle tweaks in meaning and clarifications of scope developed over the course of two and a half millennia. Successive philosophers to adopt the term put their own personal twist on the concept, each developing the term differently such that it now has no accepted definition.

Definition of conatus in the English dictionary

The definition of conatus in the dictionary is an effort or striving of natural impulse. Other definition of conatus is the tendency of all things to persist in their own being.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONATUS


afflatus
əˈfleɪtəs
altostratus
ˌæltəʊˈstreɪtəs
apparatus
ˌæpəˈreɪtəs
comitatus
ˌkɒmɪˈteɪtəs
emeritus
ɪˈmɛrɪtəs
flatus
ˈfleɪtəs
foederatus
ˌfɛdəˈreɪtəs
hiatus
haɪˈeɪtəs
inflatus
ɪnˈfleɪtəs
mammatus
mæˈmeɪtəs
meatus
mɪˈeɪtəs
nimbostratus
ˌnɪmbəʊˈstreɪtəs
saleratus
ˌsæləˈreɪtəs
serratus
səˈreɪtəs
situs
ˈsaɪtəs
status
ˈsteɪtəs
stratous
ˈstreɪtəs
stratus
ˈstreɪtəs
Titus
ˈtaɪtəs
ubiquitous
juːˈbɪkwɪtəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONATUS

conacre
conacreism
Conakry
Conan Doyle
conarial
conarium
conation
conational
conative
conc.
concanavalin
concatenate
concatenation
concause
concave
concavely
concaveness
concavities
concavity
concavo-concave

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONATUS

amateur status
beacon status
breathing apparatus
celebrity status
Cincinnatus
cirrostratus
critical apparatus
Donatus
Golgi apparatus
heating apparatus
marital status
national status
peripatus
Pilatus
Pisistratus
posse comitatus
quadratus
refugee status
semper paratus
single status

Synonyms and antonyms of conatus in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «conatus» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONATUS

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The translations of conatus from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «conatus» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

CONATUS
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conatus
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conatus
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conatus
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conatus
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Conatus
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conatus
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conatus
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conatus
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Conatus
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conatus
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conatus
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conatus
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Conatus
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conatus
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conatus
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कॉनटास
75 millions of speakers

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conatus
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conatus
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conatus
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Translator English - Ukrainian

Conatus
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

conatus
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Translator English - Greek

Conatus
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Translator English - Afrikaans

conatus
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Translator English - Swedish

conatus
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conatus
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Trends of use of conatus

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONATUS»

The term «conatus» is normally little used and occupies the 125.147 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONATUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «conatus» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «conatus» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about conatus

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONATUS»

Discover the use of conatus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to conatus and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Conatus
Max Moskowitz, mayor of Bridgeport, puts off his much-deserved retirement because he grows fascinated with the story of a brutal axe murderer and the priest who takes the confession. Southern storytelling at its best.
David Baroff, 1999
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The Mechanisation of Aristotelianism: The Late Aristotelian ...
Hobbes' reinterpretation of the Aristotelian concept of conatus is another expression of his "continental" rejection of active forces and inner potentialities. Although rejecting the scholastic theory of gravity and free fall, he retained the concept of ...
Cornelis Hendrik Leijenhorst, Cees Leijenhorst, 2002
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Leibniz: Critical and Interpretive Essays
I claim, has put motion, now conatus, into the bodies themselves. But since mere extended things cannot properly speaking have conatus or motion, and since the essential property of body is motion, then bodies must not be mere extended ...
Michael Hooker, 1982
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Spinoza : Metaphysical Themes: Metaphysical Themes
SPINOZA'S. CONATUS. ARGUMENT. Don. Garrett. T" jnaquaeque res, quantum in se est, in suo esse perseverare conatur. So KJ states proposition 6 of part 3 ( 3p6) of Spinoza's Ethics, a proposition that Edwin Curley's standard English ...
Olli I. Koistinen Academy Research Fellow University of Turku, Gainesville John Biro Professor of Philosophy University of Florida, 2001
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Divine Love and Wisdom
Here, however, I choose to confirm them only bythe conatus, forces and motionsin dead and in livingsubjects. It is knownthat conatus does nothing of itself,but acts through forces corresponding toit, thereby producing motion; consequently that ...
Emanuel Swedenborg, 2013
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Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
To persevere is to endure; hence the conatus involves an indefinite duration (III, 8 ). Just as the capacity for being affected (potestas) corresponds to the essence of God as power (potentia), an ability (aptus) to be affected corresponds to the ...
Gilles Deleuze, 1988
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On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians: Unearthed from ...
conatus; but conatus, according to what our author teaches, is motion itself, so even the power of motion is its own motion. But the power of motion or conatus is the principle of motion; hence the principle and that of which it is the principle ...
Giambattista Vico, Lucia M. Palmer, 1988
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Spinoza: The Way to Wisdom
of conatus. There are many problems related to this notion of co- natus and the propositions in which it is elucidated, which cannot be discussed in detail here.4 It is clear that Spinoza conceives co- natus as a positive force, a force by which a  ...
Herman De Dijn, 1996
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Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine
He calls this conatus will (voluntas) if it is related to the mind, but he calls it striving or drive (appetitus) if it is related at the same time to the mind and the body. In this case the conatus expresses the essence of human nature (E3P9 Schol).
Willi Goetschel, 2004
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Persistence through Time in Spinoza
My identification of ratio and conatus also has at least one significant advantage over the solution offered by Garrett and Nadler. According to Garrett, For individuals, by definition, have as their form or nature a fixed ratio or pattern, in which ...
Jason Waller, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONATUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term conatus is used in the context of the following news items.
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Making Moves: International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM …
Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:CNAT) ended the last trading day at $5.02. Company weekly volatility is calculated as 4.59% and ... «Property Mentor, Jul 15»
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Stocks to Watch: Merus Labs International Inc. (NASDAQ:MSLI …
Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:CNAT) ended the last trading day at $5.16. Company weekly volatility is calculated as 4.63% and ... «Stock Transcript, Jul 15»
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Morning Buzz: BP p.l.c. (NYSE:BP), Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc …
Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:CNAT) shares decreased -1.53% in last trading session and ended the day at $5.16. CNAT return on ... «Stock Transcript, Jul 15»
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Running Stocks: ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:ACAD …
Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:CNAT) caters to the Healthcare space. Its weekly performance is -6.52%. On the last day of trading ... «Property Mentor, Jul 15»
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Conatus Pharmaceuticals Earns "Buy" Rating from Brean Capital …
Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc logo Brean Capital reaffirmed their buy rating on shares of Conatus Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:CNAT) in a report ... «WKRB News, Jul 15»
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Conatus Pharmaceuticals Rating Increased to Hold at Zacks (CNAT)
Conatus Pharmaceuticals logo Conatus Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:CNAT) was upgraded by Zacks from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a ... «WKRB News, Jul 15»
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Brean Capital Reiterates Buy on Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc …
In a research report released Wednesday, Brean Capital analyst Difei Yang reiterated a Buy rating on Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc ... «Smarter Analyst, Jul 15»
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Conatus Pharmaceuticals Upgraded to "Hold" at Zacks (CNAT)
Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc logo Zacks upgraded shares of Conatus Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:CNAT) from a sell rating to a hold rating in a ... «Dakota Financial News, Jul 15»
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Today's Stocks: Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras SA (ADR) (NYSE:PBR …
Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:CNAT) belongs to Healthcare sector. Its weekly performance is -12.12%. On last trading day company ... «Stock Transcript, Jul 15»
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Will Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:CNAT) Surprise …
Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:CNAT) is next slated to report earnings for the current quarter on 2015-08-12. Brokerages covering ... «Investor Newswire, Jun 15»

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