-poietic

1. a combining form occurring in adjectives that correspond to nouns ending in -poiesis:

   hematopoietic.

Word History and Origins

Origin of -poietic¹

< Greek -poiētikos. See poetic

Example Sentences

Techné belongs to bringing-forth, to poiésis; it is something poietic.

From Forbes

Four main classes of mind were distinguished, called, respectively, the Poietic, the Kinetic, the Dull, and the Base.

From Project Gutenberg

But my own work is, in its nature, poietic; there is much dissatisfaction with our isolation of criminals upon islands, and I am analysing the psychology of prison officials and criminals in general with a view to some better scheme.

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The dissent of the Indian and Colonial governing class to the first crude applications of liberal propositions in India has found a voice of unparalleled penetration in Mr. Kipling, whose want of intellectual deliberation is only equalled by his poietic power.

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The Poietic or creative class of mental individuality embraces a wide range of types, but they agree in possessing imaginations that range beyond the known and accepted, and that involve the desire to bring the discoveries made in such excursions, into knowledge and recognition.

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