Relating to or characteristic of Auguste Comte, the 19th-century French philosopher and founder of positivism.
Derived from the proper name Comte (Auguste Comte, 1798-1857) with the suffix -ian, meaning 'of or relating to.' The suffix -ian is commonly used in English to form adjectives from proper names.
Auguste Comte literally invented the word 'sociology' and believed that society followed scientific laws just like physics—his radical idea that human behavior could be studied scientifically shaped how we study society today.
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