hylic

a. [哲]物质的, 实质的

发音

/ˈhaɪlɪk/
/ˈhʌɪlɪk/

词形变化

hylics 复数 hylics

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A base man, a person of merely physical concerns without mindfulness of either intellectual or spiritual matters.

    宗教
adj.
  1. 1.

    Synonym of physical, material, or base.

    宗教

    There was in man... a visible body..believed to be composed, according to many of the Gnostics, of a subtle element... which they named the hylic body, and a sheath of gross earthly matter which they called the choical body.

词源

From Medieval Latin hylicus, from Ancient Greek ὑλικός (hulikós, “wooden, material”), from ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “wood, matter”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic, forming adjectives”). As a noun, a clipped calque of homo hylicus (“hylic man”).

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