pandemian

C2+ Topic:People & Society
US /pænˈdimiən/ UK /pænˈdiːmiən/
adj

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    relating to or characteristic of a pandemic; sensual or worldly in older usage

    The poem invoked a pandemian love rooted in earthly desire.

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Synonyms
1 adj · relating to or... pandemicsensualearthlyworldly
Opposites
uraniancelestial
Word family
Related forms pandemicpandemia

Etymology

From Greek pandēmos 'of all the people, common' + -ian; in older usage, after Pandemos as an epithet of the earthly Aphrodite (Aphrodite Pandemos), it meant common or sensual. From pan 'all' + dēmos 'people'.

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