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say it: PRAK-sis
praxis is a noun meaning "translating an idea into action". It carries one recorded sense.
translating an idea into action
“a hard theory to put into practice”
“differences between theory and praxis of communism”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for praxis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.