Tabula Rasa Definition

tăbyə-lə räsə, -zə

tabulae-rasae

noun

A blank tablet; clean slate.

Webster's New World

The mind before it receives the impressions gained from experience.

American Heritage

The unformed, featureless mind in the philosophy of John Locke.

American Heritage

A need or an opportunity to start from the beginning.

American Heritage

(uncountable) The idea that the mind comes into this world as a "blank slate".

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Other Word Forms of Tabula Rasa

Singular:

tabula rasa

Plural:

tabulae-rasae

Medieval Latin tabula rāsa Latin tabula tablet Latin rāsa feminine of rāsus erased

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Latin tabula (“tablet") + rāsa, feminine singular of rāsus (“scraped, erased").

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