oceanic
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6.2
- adjective
- /oʊˈʃiːənɪk/
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inmenso
- So, for example, the poet's ecstatic intimations of pre-existence become the "oceanic" feeling that Freud posited as the state of the infant before self-consciousness develops.
You've already shown a willingness to walk into the oceanic planes of despair.
- You've already shown a willingness to walk into the oceanic planes of despair.
- We often you measure on Europeans use a scale that will refer to oceanic boundlessness.
Examples
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The oceanic expanse of the sky made the whole world feel small.
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The silence of the house, as deep as water in an oceanic abyss, was a crushing, immobilizing pressure.
Fiction book (1998) -
The new me is trying to take form out of a new experience of the tension between the oceanic and the finite.
Academic text (1990) -
You've already shown a willingness to walk into the oceanic planes of despair.
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Johnny Cho's hair is white blonde, and her eyes are a sparkly, oceanic blue.
Blog text (21) -
Human infancy is shaped by two pulls: the oceanic pull of the womb, and, in tension with this, the growing sense of being separate.
Academic text (1990) -
The cloud photographs and the gallery were meant to evoke oceanic vastness, not a forbidding sky or claustrophobic room.
Academic text (2003) -
The sublime is not a system, but oceanic, celestial, volcanic, striking the auditors or readers with powers they can barely withstand (135).
Academic text (1997) -
Her oceanic enthusiasm for the project inspired everyone in the team.
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The oceanic scope of the research project allowed for exploring countless new ideas.
Compounds
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A United States government agency that monitors oceans and weather and issues forecasts and warnings for natural disasters
A large shark with white tips on its fins that lives in warm open oceans and can attack people
How Vast
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Oceanic comes from the same root as ocean, which means 'great sea'. So when we call a feeling or size oceanic, we mean it is very large or very deep, like the sea.