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aate.

ideology (doctrine, body of ideas)

4 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɑːteˣ/[ˈɑ̝ːt̪e̞(ʔ)]
  1. ideology (doctrine, body of ideas)

  2. idea (conception in the mind of something to be done)

Where this word comes from

Derived from aatella, a dialectal variant of ajatella (“to think”); aat- + -e. Coined by Finnish teacher and linguist Gustaf Erik Eurén in 1860, based on a dialectal word meaning “sign, symptom, omen”.

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