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ANCHORITIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does anchoritic mean?
• ANCHORITIC (adjective)
The adjective ANCHORITIC has 1 sense:
1. characterized by ascetic solitude
Familiarity information: ANCHORITIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by ascetic solitude
Synonyms:
anchoritic; eremitic; eremitical; hermitic; hermitical
Context example:
his hermitic existence
Similar:
unworldly (not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations)
Derivation:
anchorite (one retired from society for religious reasons)
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