many-faceted

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English

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Etymology

From many +‎ facet +‎ -ed.

Adjective

many-faceted (comparative more many-faceted, superlative most many-faceted)

  1. Having many sides or facets; multifaceted; (by extension) having many different aspects or features.
    • 1993, Nishida Kitaro, Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview:
      Nishida's writings are a prism in which we can see refracted the manifaceted atmosphere of Japanese philosophy in the first half of this century.
    • 2013, Berndt Ostendorf, New Orleans: Creolization and all that Jazz:
      The crushing of Africa by means of the regimentation of slavery had the effect of energizing specific local creativity and this has resulted in manifaceted Africanist practices in the New World diasporas.
    • 2015, Randall J. Schaetzl, Michael L. Thompson, Soils, page 638:
      So it is in soils, as those five soil-forming factors can team together in myriad ways to form a world of soils that is complex, spatially diverse, and manifaceted.