Usually means: Exploration of fundamental truths, existence.
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  1. philosophy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. philosophy: Merriam-Webster
  3. philosophy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. philosophy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. philosophy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. philosophy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Philosophy, philosophy: Wordnik
  8. philosophy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. philosophy: Wiktionary
  10. philosophy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. philosophy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. philosophy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. philosophy: Dictionary.com
  14. philosophy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. philosophy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Philosophy (Ben Folds Five song), Philosophy (album), Philosophy (brand), Philosophy (disambiguation), Philosophy (journal), Philosophy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Philosophy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. philosophy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. philosophy: Rhymezone
  20. philosophy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. philosophy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. philosophy: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Philosophy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. philosophy: FreeDictionary.org
  25. philosophy: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  27. philosophy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. philosophy: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. philosophy: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. philosophy: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. philosophy: Hacking Lexicon
  3. philosophy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. philosophy: A Word A Day
  3. philosophy: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  4. Dictionary of Sorts (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Philosophy: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. philosophy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (philosophy)

▸ noun:  (uncountable) An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism, often attempting to provide explanations relating to general concepts such as existence and rationality.
▸ noun:  (countable) A view or outlook regarding fundamental principles underlying some domain.
▸ noun:  (countable) A general principle (usually moral).
▸ noun:  (countable) A comprehensive system of belief.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A broader branch of (non-applied) science.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, originally) The love of wisdom.
▸ noun:  A calm and thoughtful demeanor; calmness of temper.
▸ noun:  (printing, dated) Synonym of small pica (especially in French printing).
▸ verb:  (now rare) To philosophize.

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school of thought, doctrine, ism, metaphysics, phylosophy, theology, ideology, ethos, metaphilosophy, psychology, more...

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practicality, action, ignorance, materialism, literalism

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existentialism, existentialist, phenomenology, phenomenologist, more...

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Political philosophy, moral philosophy, natural philosophy, greek philosophy, Social philosophy, more...

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Similar:
school of thought, doctrine, ism, metaphysics, phylosophy, theology, ideology, ethos, metaphilosophy, psychology, more...

Opposite:
practicality, action, ignorance, materialism, literalism

Types:
existentialism, existentialist, phenomenology, phenomenologist, more...

Phrases:
Political philosophy, moral philosophy, natural philosophy, greek philosophy, Social philosophy, Indian philosophy, Western philosophy, Chinese philosophy, analytic philosophy, American philosophy, more...

Adjectives:
political, natural, moral, greek, modern, social, western, indian, educational, true, german

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    sage green,     ivory,     burgundy,     sepia,     parchment, more...



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