ad hominem

1. 1.

   appealing to personal considerations (rather than to fact or reason)

   “ad hominem arguments”

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Questions about ad hominem

What does ad hominem mean?

ad hominem means "appealing to personal considerations (rather than to fact or reason)".

Is ad hominem a common word?

ad hominem is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.