tabularasa
nounUK /ˌtæb.jə.lə ˈrɑː.zə/
US /ˌtæb.jə.lə ˈrɑː.sə/
A mind that is empty and ready to learn new things.
The teacher treated the new students as a tabula rasa and taught them from the very beginning.
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2. A situation or thing that starts completely fresh with nothing from before.
After the flood, the town was a tabula rasa for new building plans.
3. A philosophical idea that the human mind begins empty and gains knowledge through experience.
Locke argued that the mind is a tabula rasa at birth.
4. A clean surface or blank page ready to be written on.
The artist saw the white wall as a tabula rasa for her mural.