Fortean
Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː.tɪ.ən/
The English word “Fortean” has 4 meanings listed here.
noun
adjective
- Of or pertaining to anomalous phenomena.
- Of or pertaining to Charles Fort.
Etymology
From Fort + -ean, named after Charles Hoy Fort (1874–1932), an American writer and investigator of anomalous phenomena. The word was coined by American journalist Ben Hecht (1894–1964) in a review of Fort’s book The Book of the Damned (1919) in the Chicago Daily News in 1920.
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