Word of the day: hermeneutics
I had never heard of this word until my son spent a year at the University of Amsterdam as part of his first degree over a decade ago. He did a course called “The Hermaneutics Of Gender”.
I’ve seen the word rarely since – but I did come across it in an academic paper that a postgraduate friend of mine asked me to read recently. The context?: “The case of metaphor is only a particular case for a general theory of hermeneutics.”
The word essentially means the study of a special set of texts, typically the Bible or some academic writings. More information here.
See if you can slip the word into your next conversation …