Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to Eden; characteristic of Eden.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to Eden; paradisaic.
Examples
“One of the reasons for early settlers awed reaction to the "edenic" American landscape was that the wide-open vistas had been cleared and replanted by now-dead indigenous people wiped out by early contact with smallpox-ridden explorers.”
“The heavenly paradise at the green end, like edenic paradise at the green beginning, can have no humans in it.”
“As a dyed-in-the-wool city boy, it was my only real exposure to the 'burbs and it proved an edenic one that also caught something of the exotically militarized mood of that Korean War moment.”
“Oh I know, post-lapsarian; I am definitely conscious of my fall from an edenic state of grace!”
“There, in lush, edenic landscapes and immense, painterly and unabashedly carnal nudes, Renoir captured the fascination of the Mediterranean for countless painters and poets of his generation who sought Arcadian alternatives to the harsh realities of Parisian modernity.”
“Here's a scene about John Smith's return from edenic captivity among the natives, into the hard life of a leader of the colonists.”
“Only under a Democratic president (that he is inter-racial surely adds fuel to the fire, though again, it's far from the whole story) does the prospect exist for the final breaching of the walls of that edenic community for which the protesters yearn and which their guns help protect.”
“Also the children are not so much pictured as unschooled natives but as sophisticated and elegant visitors to their edenic but strange environments.”
“So for me, a sophisticated religious belief is one which is able to recognize the validity of other religious traditions, recognize the historical contingency of some of the social teachings of its own traditions, and recognize the symbolic nature of religious teaching and experience — IE Adam and Eve is a mythic tale describing the loss of the edenic state of oneness with nature with the birth of the individual ego.”
“Most recently there was Kittredge's "Hole in the Sky," a searing description of his own self-destructive life interwoven with the story of how his family's agribusiness empire laid waste an edenic swatch of Oregon countryside.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘edenic’.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
taramea, tawings, tchicks, timider, tirades, tirings, towings, trailed, trailer, trained, trainee, trainer and 2373 more...
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New words
new words or spelling issues
voluble, Metagrobolize, salubrious, calumny, fugacity, withdrawal, bourse, hypertrophy, leitmotif, argot, improvident, damask and 241 more...
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Before and After the Fall
Arcadia to Apocalypse
prelapsarian, arcadian, armageddon, paradise lost, apocalypse, eden, edenic, golden age, end of the world, garden of eden, arcadia, antediluvian and 6 more...
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nfk9595's Words
magnetohydrodynamics, bovine, epistle, gargantuan, kerfuffle, verbiage, morose, coup de main, elan, achtung, uber, verboten and 497 more...
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random assortment
antinomian ranter, supercilious, minion, carmine, circumlocution, mellisma, riverward, microtextual, callipygian, confelicitous, googlewhackery, dovetail and 179 more...
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I love you for your meaning
cassoulette, propinquity, nudibranch, gustatory, incorrigible, neophobic, detritus, bargainous, staycation, steampunk, catastrophizing, yeasayer and 38 more...
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In My Day
Words that refer to some previous time, perhaps when things weren't so bad, or at least before all this newfangled crap, like not having to walk through snow to school, or these kids with their music.
prelapsarian, antediluvian, edenic, xanadu, arcadian, shangri-la, pre-nine-eleven
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