English Explanatory Dictionary

Rashomonic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Involving multiple contradictory accounts.

Word forms

Rashomonic more Rashomonic most Rashomonic

Etymology

After Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon (1950), in which a crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways; + -ic.

Related words

Rashomon effect
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