mechanistically

1. 1.

   in a mechanistic manner

   “Handel achieves a huge breadth of musical thought when composing almost mechanistically in the least weighty of styles”

Questions about mechanistically

What does mechanistically mean?

mechanistically means "in a mechanistic manner".

How many syllables are in mechanistically?

mechanistically has 6 syllables and divides as me-cha-ni-sti-cal-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is mechanistically a common word?

mechanistically 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.