MEANING
1. One distinct part or feature of a subject or situation with several aspects.
2. One of the small flat surfaces on a cut stone, bone, or tooth.
Use it for
separating one aspect of a complex issue; examining a dimension without treating it as the whole; showing that an interpretation has several related partsSeparates a particular aspect from the subject as a whole without assuming that aspects are independent. Academic functions: Analysis / Interpretation.
Words that belong together
- a facet of the problem
- different facets of inequality
- an overlooked facet
On the page
The study examines the administrative facet of exclusion alongside its cultural and economic dimensions.
The critic treats irony as one facet of the narrator’s voice, not its complete explanation.
The art historian describes how the jewel’s facets redirect light in the portrait.
The archaeological report records wear on the tooth’s facets before proposing an explanation.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- facet
Usage notes
Count noun: facet, facets; a facet of a problem. Physical and figurative senses share the regular plural. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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