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Polyfilla

Polyfilla

English

Noun

Polyfilla (uncountable)

  1. (Britain) A metaphorical filler to minimize or obscure defects.
    • 2013, Julian Bagginni, I Still Love Kierkegaard (in Aeon magazine, May 6, 2013)
      Kierkegaard saw clearly that faith is not a kind of epistemic Polyfilla that closes the small cracks left by reason, but a mad leap across a chasm devoid of all reason.