Casuistry

Definitions: Casuistry

Casuistry

Noun

1. Argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading.

2. Moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas.

Date "casuistry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1664. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Duty	Ethics, ethology.; deontology, aretology; moral philosophy, ethical philosophy; casuistry, polity.
Reasoning,	Sophistry, paralogy, perversion, casuistry, jesuitry, equivocation, evasion; chicane, chicanery; quiddet, quiddity; mystification; special pleading; speciousness; Adjective: nonsense; word sense, tongue sense.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Casuistry

English words defined with "casuistry": casuistic, casuistical, Casuistieal ♦ probabilism. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Casuistry and Modern Ethics: A Poetics of Practical Reasoning (reference) Conscience and Casuistry in Early Modern Europe (reference) Conscience and Its Problems: An Introduction to Casuistry (Library of Theological Ethics) (reference) Defoe and Casuistry (reference) Making Mortal Choices: Three Exercises in Moral Casuistry (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Casuistry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Casuistry" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	15	90,616

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "casuistry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		lojë me fjalë (quibble, quiddity). (various references)

Arabic		‏الإفتاء في قضايا الضمير. (various references)

Bulgarian		казуистика. (various references)

French		casuistique (casuistic). (various references)

German		kasuistik. (various references)

Greek		σοφιστική ηθικολογία. (various references)

Hebrew		פלפל� ות (hair splitting, sophistry), פלפול (argumentation, debate, dispute), �"תפלפלות (hair splitting, sophistry), �"תחכמות (philosophing, sophistry). (various references)

Hungarian		kazuisztika. (various references)

Italian		casistica. (various references)

Manx		resoonaghys (rationalism), cooinsheansaght (conscientiousness). (various references)

Pig Latin		asuistrycay

Portuguese		casuística. (various references)

Romanian		cazuisticã. (various references)

Russian		казуистика (Jesuitism). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kazuistika. (various references)

Spanish		casuística, sofismo (quip, sophism). (various references)

Swedish		kasuistik, advokatyr (quibbling). (various references)

Turkish		vicdan muhasebesi (heart-searching, inner conflict), safsata (fallacious, fallacy, flubdub, jesuitry, nonsense, quiddity, sophism, sophistry). (various references)

Ukranian		казуїстика (hair splitting, jesuitism). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự phán quyết đúng sai lý lẽ t� i tình, lý lẽ nguỵ biện, khoa phán quyết đúng sai. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Casuistry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: casusitry, casustry, causistry, causuistry. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "casuistry" (pronounced 'Cas"u*ist*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-r-s-s-t-u-y"
	-1 letter: sacristy.
	-2 letters: aurists, casuist, citrusy, cuirass, racists, raucity, rustics, sacrist, satyric.
	-3 letters: acuity, aurist, cistus, citrus, crasis, crissa, crista, crusts, crusty, curtsy, racist, rictus, rustic, satyrs, scarts, scaurs, sistra, sitars, stairs, strays, sutras, tarsus, triacs, tsuris, tussar, uratic.
	-4 letters: airts, arcus, arsis, artsy, ascus, astir, auric, auris, carts, casts, casus, cissy, cists, crass, crust.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-r-s-s-t-u-y"
	+2 letters: cystinurias.
	+3 letters: ichthyosaurs, quasicrystal.
	+4 letters: quasicrystals.
	+5 letters: unsatisfactory.
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