Wiktionary:Word of the day/2021/February 15

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Word of the day
for February 15
sphexish adj
  1. (philosophy) Of animal behaviour: deterministic, preprogrammed.

Douglas Hofstadter, the American scientist and scholar of comparative literature who coined the word, was born on this day in 1945.

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