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adjective Completely sealed, especially against the escape or entry of air.
adjective Impervious to outside interference or influence: the hermetic confines of an isolated life.
adjective Mythology Of or relating to Hermes Trismegistus or the works ascribed to him.

Renny knew that, at greater altitudes, this hermetic-sealing process was for the benefit of passengers. — 110 - The Magic Forest
The ancient door to my steel and stone box seemed to blend itself into its aperture like a hermetic seal. — CATCH ME IF YOU CAN - FRANK ABAGNALE JR.
The Enchanted Florist, as his title indicated, lived in hermetic isolation deep within the treacherous woods of the Enchanted Forest. — Challenging Destiny #19
She argued angrily with him at the dinner table that she had become a laughingstock not only in the hermetic, front-stabbing Hollywood community but across the country. — EQMM,January2008
Two years that he has been closed like an oyster, hermetic, because if he opened up, even for a moment, all the whys and hows would flood in, and he would have to acknowledge there is no answer. — FSFMagazine,June2007