negative capability

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The capacity of artists to pursue ideals of beauty, perfection and sublimity even when it leads them into intellectual confusion and uncertainty, as opposed to a preference for philosophical certainty over artistic beauty. countable,uncountable
    — His poetry helps me understand passion and mortality; his musings on negative capability help me understand how I can love and hate home at the same time. Negative capability, said Keats in an 1817 letter, “is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason" (1818).

词形变化

negative capabilities plural

词源

Coined by John Keats in an 1817 letter.
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