monadic

British  

/ mɒˈnædɪk /

adjective

1. being or relating to a monad

2. logic maths (of an operator, predicate, etc) having only a single argument place

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Example Sentences

The aphorism is defined by its monadic quality, its obtuse resistance to being teased or elaborated.

From The New Yorker

I know not whether there is possibility of change and motion, or whether we are all stranded within one monadic unity; but when I ask Where doth the black king stand, and where the cabin, and where the ship in motion? then do change and motion disappear: for what is flight, if you cannot approach safety?

From Literature

This American premiere from the Polish company Teatr ZAR reflects — with the help of Anatolian monadic chants — on the annihilation of nearly 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915.

From New York Times

Disputing with her lover and herself, Björk—or multiple Björks in overdub—often sings each melodic line as a monadic unit that may or may not relate to the previous or the next: “one. feeling. at a. time,” as she dissects it in the second track, “Lionsong.”

From Slate

It inspires a tidy, monadic surge of ferocity or freedom, quickly passed over in novel or movie because the hawk isn’t embodied.

From Salon