ENACTIVATES EN ACTIVATES EN-ACTIVATES

 

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Is this a real word? or is it an advertising gimick? I just heard it on an advert, looked it up in online dictionary and it lists them all but only actually defines activate. :confused:

"Inactivates"? Yes it's a real word. It means the opposite to "activates".

"Inactivates"? Yes it's a real word. It means the opposite to "activates".

 

Thank you very much but sorry, no thanks. Not 'inactivates' but Enactivates.

Enactivates doesn't appear in the Aspell dictionary.

You said you heard it, how do you know how it was spelled on the script?

 

en- (also em-) tends to mean put into or on (e.g. engulf, enmesh) bring into the condition of (e.g. enlighten, embitter, enbiggins) intensification (e.g. entangle, enrage) (source)

I'm deeply sorry to have put you out uneccessarilly but another attempt brought forth a much better result from the online dictionary. Thus;

 

Enactivism (psychology)

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In psychology, and the cognitive sciences more generally, enactivism is a theoretical approach to understanding the mind. It incorporates an historical perspective -- in the sense that each individual's developmental trajectory shapes their understanding of reality -- with the result that it can be seen to subsume and synthesize arguments from embodied and situated cognition to present an alternative to cognitivism.

 

Enactivists criticize representational views of the mind and emphasize the importance of embodiment and action to cognition.

 

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en·ac·tive /ɛnˈæktɪv/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[en-ak-tiv] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–adjective having power to enact or establish, as a law.

 

[Origin: 1650–60; enact + -ive]

 

 

My first effort produced a very different result.

 

Thanks.

 

Can't imagine what it would be doing in an advertisement though. Unless of course it wasn't. Mysteriously!

Isn't "deactivate" the opposite of activate?

Isn't "deactivate" the opposite of activate?

 

Quite so and thank you, but that wasn't the question. I had just never heard of enactivate.

enable yes, enactivate is almost a one word tautology