hylic

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

Having to do with, or of the nature of, matter.

Noun

The basest type of man in the gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping; a person focused on neither intellectual (psychic) nor spiritual (pneumatic) reality.

Sinonieme

financial

material

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈhaɪlɪk/

Etimologie (Engels)

1820s, from earlier German use; earlier hylical (1708). From Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “matter”) + -ic (“of or pertaining to”).