Usually means: Eliciting knowledge through questioning method.
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  1. maieutic: Merriam-Webster
  2. maieutic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. maieutic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. maieutic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. maieutic: Wordnik
  6. maieutic: Wiktionary
  7. maieutic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. maieutic: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Maieutic, maieutic: Dictionary.com
  10. Maieutic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Maieutic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Maieutic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. maieutic: FreeDictionary.org
  14. maieutic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. maieutic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Maieutic: World Wide Words

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. maieutic: A Word A Day
  3. maieutic: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (maieutic)

▸ adjective:  (philosophy) Of or related to the Socratic method.
▸ adjective:  (uncommon) Obstetric: of or related to childbirth.
▸ noun:  Midwifery.

Similar:
maieutical, Socratic, Socratical, metaphilosophical, mystagogical, mystagogic, sciosophic, scholastic, Maeonian, mesological, more...

Opposite:
aporia, non-socratic, didactic

Phrases:
maieutic method, more...

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Similar:
maieutical, Socratic, Socratical, metaphilosophical, mystagogical, mystagogic, sciosophic, scholastic, Maeonian, mesological, more...

Opposite:
aporia, non-socratic, didactic

Phrases:
maieutic method, more...



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