Definitions

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  • adjective in the shape of a vulva or a vagina, in the shape of a yoni

Etymologies

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yoni +‎ -ic, from Sanskrit योनि (yoni).

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Examples

  • Okay, so was the circle of life bit just one huge yonic symbol?

    Write Like A Woman | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • Coraline, given a magic vagina by the lesbians, is able to see through the illusions of the world and can easily defeat the impotent Other Father who is revealed as a hungry pumpkin, another yonic symbol.

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

  • Okay, so was the circle of life bit just one huge yonic symbol?

    Write Like A Woman 2008

  • Aphrodite's dove, that other yonic symbol, hovered above the scene.

    Lily Jan 2008

  • Aphrodite's dove, that other yonic symbol, hovered above the scene.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008

  • Nana, virgin mother of the savior Attis, conceived him by eating either a pomegranate seed or an almond, another yonic symbol.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008

  • Her yonic emblem appeared not only as the French fleu-de-lis but also as the Irish shamrock, which was not originally Irish but a sacred symbol among Indus Valley people some 6000 years before the Christian era.

    Lily Jan 2008

  • Created by a member of the Seattle office of the National Council of Jewish Women's to publicize performances of Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues, the Seattle Times refused to run the yonic ad unless it was altered, with the VP of advertising claiming, "The artwork was something we didn't feel was appropriate for our audience."

    Leslie Goldman: Vaginas Are The New Black 2008

  • Her yonic emblem appeared not only as the French fleu-de-lis but also as the Irish shamrock, which was not originally Irish but a sacred symbol among Indus Valley people some 6000 years before the Christian era.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008

  • (On second thought, maybe the vowels aren't excessive, considering that vowels do possess a decidedly yonic quality, particularly when contrasted with the testosterone flavor of most consonants.)

    Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

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  • The female equivalent of phallic.

    November 8, 2007

  • This one needs to be used more, I think.

    June 30, 2008

  • My college friends and I came up with an informative song called "A Thing's A Phallic Symbol If It's Longer Than It's Wide" that we used to sing boisterously on Saturday nights. Thanks in part to this song, I have no trouble recognizing phallic symbols. But I don't think I could recognize a yonic symbol.

    What makes something yonic? Is being circular enough? Or does it have to be concave?

    June 30, 2008

  • Sounds very Monty Python.

    June 30, 2008

  • cf yoni

    July 17, 2008

  • Yonic symbols have to rely on detail more than silhouette, I think. Georgia O'Keefe's work and orchids come to mind.

    July 17, 2008

  • Although orchid is a word of Greek origin meaning testicle.

    July 17, 2008

  • I just caught this thread. This might be obvious, but an example of a yonic symbol would be anything rounded and open--the 'Omega' sign, an 'O', a opening to a tunnel, etc. It's intentionally vague, of course, just like a phallic symbol is interpreted as basically anything that's stick-like. Sometimes it's just rounded, not even open--some consider a dome shape to be yonic in the same way some see skyscrapers to be phallic. It might be interesting to note that a lot of both religious and capital buildings seem to mysteriously contain both (stick-atop-dome).

    With symbolism like this my initial reflex is to roll my eyes, thinking about grade schoolers making immature, finger-in-hole gestures. But quite a lot of psychology has shown that these sorts of symbols (and a host of many others) do play a part in a sort of unconscious communication in the mind.

    December 25, 2008

  • Shells are classic symbols of the yoni -- think Venus on the half-shell, the slippery flesh of bivalves, the iridescent mother of pearl gleam that coats their inner surface.

    December 25, 2008