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Hobbsian is an alternative form of hobbesian.

hobbsian

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

    • hobbesian

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Hobbsian

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • involving unrestrained, selfish, and uncivilized competition among participants.
  • * 1995 , Fred Pfeil, White Guys: Studies in Postmodern Domination and Difference (page 150)
    • In Hammett's writings, the social is constructed as a vast Hobbesian landscape of grim functionaries and desperate scrabblers

    See also

    * solitary * poor * nasty * brutish * short English eponyms