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EREMITIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eremitic mean?
• EREMITIC (adjective)
The adjective EREMITIC has 2 senses:
1. of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living
2. characterized by ascetic solitude
Familiarity information: EREMITIC used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
eremitic; eremitical
Context example:
eremitic austerities
Antonym:
cenobitic (of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living)
Pertainym:
eremite (a Christian recluse)
Derivation:
eremite (a Christian recluse)
Sense 2
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:
eremite (a Christian recluse)
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